LazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoTradition is just bullying by dead peoplemessage-squaremessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down132
arrow-up1242arrow-down1message-squareTradition is just bullying by dead peopleLazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square35linkfedilink
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down15·22 hours agoTradition is the experiments that worked.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·21 hours 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·edit-222 hours 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-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 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·edit-211 hours 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-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 hours agoShirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
minus-squarekadu@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-222 hours agoCheese is the milk that yellow.
minus-squareDelta_V@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·22 hours 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/
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
Shirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
Cheese is the milk that yellow.
. . . in their time and place, but the universe is ever changing.