Without a leader, a group must grapple with the question on their own, ie., speak forth about why they are there or, given their lack of knowledge, why they think they might be there. Once again, answering the question may not be as as important as addressing it. People usually only disrupt their daily routines and get out of the house for good reasons. As ritual intents, both produce different results. Social and asocial intentions can also be isolated for the purpose of exploring and distilling their distinct functions, expressions and rewards.
Social rituals are important to the development, integration and stabilization of ego.
As an end to itself, however, social rituals become a spiritual dead end. Experience and consciousness conforms and narrows to the reality tunnels of local consensus maps, dogmas and status rewards. When seen in context to the asocial, the purpose of social rituals undergoes transformation. Though many age-old mystical systems design and promote social rituals and ethical systems, these are generally not meant as pathways to mystical experience. In context to the asocial climate of this paratheatrical medium, individual integrity and autonomy are given apriori status.