I mean, tradition has its place in human evolution. The elders often did knew better (btw, that's why humans have grandparents). But in the modern fast-lived world, it's vastly outdated.

Still, you should learn from the past and live in the present.

edit: though traditions in the form of customs, some of them are nice and should be preserved.

“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

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.

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.

🎵 "(dont) Give a fuck about tradition, stop impressin' the dead" 🎵

Tradition just pressure the is peer from dead