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Tradition is innovation that survived long enough to stop being questioned.
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Tradition is a solution that forgot the problem it solved.
Yours feel unnecessarily disrespectful.
Saw this on Reddit years ago. Looks like posting it has become something of a tradition!
In a modern society, generation by generation, we choose what tradition is acceptable to keep and what is not. We’ve abandoned many more traditions than we have kept, so they aren’t inherently sacred and unquestionable.
Anyone who wants to keep a tradition that causes harm is just malicious.
Were you browsing 9gag in the shower or what?
It’s the living people who carry on traditions
Tradition is brainwashing younger people they should keep doing what you did even after you’re gone.
Not that every tradition is bad, or that everything should be done differently. Humans learn from the previous generations, that’s a fundamental of our existence. But the way some traditions are imposed onto the young despite all issues with them sucks. It’s about balance and not being dogmatic, I guess.
Speaking of brainwashing, its just do easy for a parent to abuse their position of power and like manipulate their children however they want.
Like if you got born into a crime family, you would have no choice but to live your childhood/teen years doing their bidding…
You could be born into a family of racists, a family of terrorists (think: Bin Laden), or a morally corrupt rich family (like: every politician ever)
Brainwashing is even more effective when you show affection 50% of the time.
But I think I just have a better “sus meter” than my mom anticipated, I detect her her bullshit all the time. Mom thinks I’m a gullible little servant that will obey her for the rest of her life. I guess being birthed by a manipulator naturally give you that BS Detector DNA?
But my brain is so weird… I get weirdly attached to my… emotionally abusive mother… I think I might have a bit of stockholm syndrome… I think I just really fanticise about the idea of family that I always desired…
Tradition is loving your ancestors’ wisdom.
OP needs to see Fiddler on the Roof, multiple times.
Even Tevye didn’t know why they kept up their traditions.
I like this one. It’s an amusing way to think about it.
Tradition is something silly. Endlessly redoing the same things at a fixed time just because…
Tradition is the experiments that worked.
Tradition is the thing we convince ourselves to keep doing because it was done before.
The things that worked are the things we keep doing without calling it a tradition.
. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.
read shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”?
I’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.
ok…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”?
Cheese is the yellow.
