To all the modern secular ppl I see fetishizing tradition: As someone who came from an extremely traditional 1950s-style family, you think you want this but you probably don't actually
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(tho I acknowledge some of you may possibly actually want this for some reason)
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Tradition would be super sad if it stopped at the 1950’s, but there’s something that feels really purposeful about perpetuating ancient rituals, meaningless as they may seem.
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Do we even have access to ancient traditions in contemporary US society?
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Fetishization of tradition is one of the 14 characteristic Umberto Eco described as warning signals that Ur Fascism is returning. openculture.com/2016/11/umbert
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I think a lot of people experience modernity as a kind of unhinged exhibitionism of monstrosity and ugliness. A lot of these people do in fact want to stuff things back in the closet on the principle that if they can't see the suffering it's not real.
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