I personally hate how people cling to traditions. I used to a little bit about holidays and such but now i see how pointless it is and in a way debilitating so I drop them without looking back.
Clinging doesn't need to be, also most people only want to stick with traditions more because they give them order while the present doesn't, less because they really like it or because it's factually more right than all mumbo jumbo that gets preached in the current days. It's not about the tradition itself, so to say, about its content. But by "tradition" I don't only mean "human customs", it's more than that.
I agree it helps people to run from reality for a sec.
Human customs are not always bad though, if somebody has a habit of brushing teeth and making bed in the morning it helps promoting health and good organization. Another extreme is total anarchy and chaos which is counterproductive. On the other hand, that is the case if we talk about tradition that somebody else is getting profit from and second of all some pointless thing like most of the stupid holidays like Easter, for example. As if we are in BC and need to worship sun and nature. Hello, it is 21 century for god's sake.
See, we're getting closer to the kind of category that I mean. Some traditions are like saving the society, or saving the natural order that is the ruler of all creatures that live. Tossing them away would cause the greater damage than keeping them - just because things have a natural order, and if eliminating that, you'd be soon off to eliminate ALL natural order. It's like the grout for keeping things together. Also, for keeping some things orking. You know, humans often enough have fallen to the idea to toss away all that stuff that keeps them tied to the same natural base that also animals share. They're megalomanical in a way and think of themselves really as something superior, more valuable than all other creatures. They think they can design themselves however they want and everything else. Within this acting of tearing all links in life apart and generating a pure "ego-system" ("only me counts"), suddenly things start to fall apart - and they get wondering too why this happens. Like children which don't think about the consequences of their deeds. This means there is no endless freedom of designing yourself and designing the order that is this planet. That is your surroundings. There is just... some order that even humans are subject to. And they better not try to convince themselves of the opposite because it's going to turn their own social order upside down too if they do. While this can result in really unpredictable consequences that you couldn't think of before. Like, e. g. humans not being able to bear children anymore through natural circumstances, but only through the help of biotechnology.
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Date: 18 March 2017 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18 March 2017 07:27 am (UTC)It's not about the tradition itself, so to say, about its content.
But by "tradition" I don't only mean "human customs", it's more than that.
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Date: 18 March 2017 03:14 pm (UTC)Human customs are not always bad though, if somebody has a habit of brushing teeth and making bed in the morning it helps promoting health and good organization. Another extreme is total anarchy and chaos which is counterproductive. On the other hand, that is the case if we talk about tradition that somebody else is getting profit from and second of all some pointless thing like most of the stupid holidays like Easter, for example. As if we are in BC and need to worship sun and nature. Hello, it is 21 century for god's sake.
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Date: 18 March 2017 03:59 pm (UTC)Some traditions are like saving the society, or saving the natural order that is the ruler of all creatures that live. Tossing them away would cause the greater damage than keeping them - just because things have a natural order, and if eliminating that, you'd be soon off to eliminate ALL natural order. It's like the grout for keeping things together. Also, for keeping some things orking.
You know, humans often enough have fallen to the idea to toss away all that stuff that keeps them tied to the same natural base that also animals share. They're megalomanical in a way and think of themselves really as something superior, more valuable than all other creatures. They think they can design themselves however they want and everything else.
Within this acting of tearing all links in life apart and generating a pure "ego-system" ("only me counts"), suddenly things start to fall apart - and they get wondering too why this happens. Like children which don't think about the consequences of their deeds.
This means there is no endless freedom of designing yourself and designing the order that is this planet. That is your surroundings. There is just... some order that even humans are subject to. And they better not try to convince themselves of the opposite because it's going to turn their own social order upside down too if they do. While this can result in really unpredictable consequences that you couldn't think of before. Like, e. g. humans not being able to bear children anymore through natural circumstances, but only through the help of biotechnology.
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Date: 18 March 2017 04:16 pm (UTC)