1. All rituals have a reconciliatory nature, I think you’ll see this in many psychosocial models, (especially René Girard’s). Rituals like The Halvening distract from the hostility of conflict and gives rivals a chance to cooperate on something outside their relationship. “If you celebrate with me on this Halvening, I’ll forget that you brought up a fixed miner subsidy at the last Bitcoin Council Gathering”, that sort of thing. It’ll mostly be unsaid and subconscious.
For specific examples of who is reconciling at this specific ritual, just look at this thread! Hundreds of comments from hundreds of strangers around the world, all coming together.
2. All press is good press!
Another fact that supports the ritual hypothesis is the fact that this “event” has to be a big event every four years. Why not simply adjust down the reward at every block? Because then we’d have no ritual, and thus we’d have a weaker community.
For specific examples of who is reconciling at this specific ritual, just look at this thread! Hundreds of comments from hundreds of strangers around the world, all coming together.
2. All press is good press!
Another fact that supports the ritual hypothesis is the fact that this “event” has to be a big event every four years. Why not simply adjust down the reward at every block? Because then we’d have no ritual, and thus we’d have a weaker community.