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-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”?
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”?