Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I doubt the necessity of traditions any longer. Or, I guess, to what degree do we need holidays/traditions for tribal solidarity given our insanely quick/high fidelity tech, telecom, social media, travel, etc ?

The faster technology changes, the more we need cultural traditions as a counter-weight, IMHO.

Traditions are more like aging rock groups which successfully reinvent themselves for each new generation.

Yes, but if the rock groups didn't age or get worse and were literally immortal.

No, not really, a tradition is an innovation that never was peer reviewed, was never evaluated on its merits, but also never formally challenged and is generally not harmful enough to cause significant damage to its practitioners, at least relative to their immediate competition

If not peer-reviewed then what is your idea for the process and reason why a tradition is considered worth passing down from one generation to the next?