LazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTradition is just bullying by dead peoplemessage-squaremessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1318arrow-down137
arrow-up1281arrow-down1message-squareTradition is just bullying by dead peopleLazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square45linkfedilink
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down15·2 months agoTradition is the experiments that worked.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months 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-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoread shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”? https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoShirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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·edit-22 months agook…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”? edit: that’s what i thought. maybe next time, try to figure out what it is you’re trying to say before you try to say it
minus-squareDelta_V@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months ago. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.
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.
read shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”?
https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
Shirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
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”?
edit: that’s what i thought. maybe next time, try to figure out what it is you’re trying to say before you try to say it
Cheese is the milk that yellow.
. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.