@markarayner true but sometimes it's from the living too

@markarayner This explains a lot about my disdain for tradition then! I was drilled early on not to give into peer pressure, so I also didn't give into tradition and left the cult 🫢

@markarayner «Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht!»

@markarayner This sentiment seems to me to adhere to a modern Western tradition of disparaging one’s ancestors.

Most peoples worldwide show greater respect towards the ways of being and insights of those who have gone before.

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no "interesting" so much as exact.
The worst reason to do anything, yes even short bread recipes, is "because mah gran did it thus"

@markarayner UNLESS the peer pressure from dead people is making pecan pies from family recipes because they are YUM. 😍 😂

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Mind. Blown.

@markarayner let's trade up.

@markarayner Nice!!

@markarayner it’s more restrictive than anything, though.
“Tradition” means a lot of things to a lot of people, including cultural, religious, moral, and linguistic identity and transmission.
Unique traditions is part of what defines groups of people. And usually, traditions are shared by the community who have more diverse and complex motivations than feeling guilt from dead people, even when they don’t, it’s not up to you to tell them that’s wrong.

@markarayner the first time I heard that was from Beau of the fifth column

@markarayner Who, day and night, must scramble for a living,
Feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers?

@markarayner @akariii - One side of my family is very attached to tradition to the point that it stifles their own progress and creativity and ostracizes those who don't follow it to the letter (wonder who that could be).

Tradition should inform your future, not be it.

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Best moment ever is when you realise half the reason you do crap is because you always do it from before you formed the autonomy to decide to do it...

Then you have the ongoing war with the living people (of all ages) who haven't figured it out yet as they howl at your tush walking off to do your own thing and practice self care and resilience rather than join them in engaging in seasonal holiday burn out

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When people say "But this is the way we have always done it," I say, "That's the way you always did it...before I got here."

In other words, its time to make some new traditions; ones more suitable for the people now here, the place we now find ourselves, and times we are in.

#tradition #innovation #creativity #socialchange

@markarayner ie, “you have to do it and go through because I had to do it and go through it. You cannot have it easier than me. Period!”

Pure crap! Each generation should strive to make it better for the next generation. Currently I think things are going the wrong direction.

@markarayner I know the feeling!

@markarayner :mastosupport:

@markarayner lmfao!!!

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This is something often quoted by
#beauofthefifthcolumn
So true

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The fact that "tradition" is always held up as a shield for a whole series of the most evil behaviors also pisses me off to no end. This stoic adherence to the past blinds the future. But I have not yet come up with this simple definition. Thank you. 👍

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Recent build session setting up stage for a one-night show.
Quote from self:
“The next person who uses the phrase, ‘we always did it this way before’ is getting a slap…”
Just because it HAS been done that way, doesn’t mean it SHOULD, or is the best/safest way to do it.
#grumpy

@markarayner "A tradition is an embarrassing excuse for an eternal repetition of the same stupidities"
― Dan Turèll

@markarayner I love de "despair.com" demotivator poster about tradition.

"Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid" with an image of people running from bulls at Sanfermines in Spain.

@markarayner Idea nicked from Karl Marx.

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

@markarayner Or the blunt object to be used to hammer people in their place when they make the mistake of being out of the norm.

Like me, originally rural gal, interested in technology and working in the field nowdays.

@markarayner Interesting but I disagree with it. Tradition doesn't have to be old enough to have dead people associated with it. What makes it traditional is not how long it's been done, it's that people do it because they feel it should be done. Maybe because they've been told so. And that strikes me as peer pressure from the present day.

"You're not cooking sweet potato casserole this year? But it's TRADITIONAL!" That's not a dead person applying the pressure.