Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people

Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  . . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.

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• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  read shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”?

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  • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.

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    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ok…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”?

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shirley Jackson didn't write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.

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