LazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoTradition is just bullying by dead peoplemessage-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down122
arrow-up1165arrow-down1message-squareTradition is just bullying by dead peopleLazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down13·12 hours agoTradition is the experiments that worked.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·11 hours agoTradition 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.
minus-squareDelta_V@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 hours ago. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.
minus-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoread shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”?
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 hours agoI’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.
minus-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agook…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”?
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.