LazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTradition is just bullying by dead peoplemessage-squaremessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up1312arrow-down137
arrow-up1275arrow-down1message-squareTradition is just bullying by dead peopleLazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square41linkfedilink
minus-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 days 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-up1·2 days 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 days 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-up1·2 days agoShirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
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.