Once I found out a lot of the so called traditions were only made up less than 50 years ago I stopped putting any stock in them at all. And for a lot of traditions once you start looking in to them, they were made up to sell stuff.
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And the ones that are older have been heavily modified. Even what we think of as old traditions are usually remarkably new in how they're done, even if the concept has been around for generations.
When people want "traditional [thing]", what they usually mean is "I want it like it was when I was a teenager".
As a Scot, there's nothing more disappointing than finding out about the history of kilts.
Can you elaborate? I know very little about the history of kilts
The modern skirt-like kilt only dates to the 1700s, and the association of particular patterns with clans only dates to the 1800s. Braveheart was BULLSHIT. And they didn't paint themselves blue, either - that was the Picts.
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growing up i always heard the quote “tradition is the democracy of the dead”. i wish more people treated it as such. i.e., these dead people said they liked things a certain way, but we can disagree with them, criticize their stupid ideas, and change what we don’t like.
but of course you then have the cringe david brooks republicans who think tradition = good, and then it ends up being that tradition is the autocracy of the dead.
“All that stuff, tradition and heritage. It’s dead people’s baggage. Quit carrying it.
Did you make it up? No, it was passed down to me. Pass it back.”
- Doug Stanhope
Personally, I prefer ‘Tradition is the rotting corpse of wisdom’, but that works too.
Term limits are just people from the past telling you who you can vote for today.