Quiet Thought...
If necessity is the mother of invention, and invention is the antithesis of tradition, does this mean that traditionalists have never needed anything they didn't already have?
I can't help but find myself looking upon the traditionalists mindset not unlike I see severely brain damaged people - Not quite all there so you can't just *expect* the same from them as you can with non-disadvantaged people, but it pays to be kind to them since you never really know for sure how much real human being is left in there.
Traditions, for the most part, are built on some kind of logic, but long after the original logic is forgotten, somone will ask why it's done that way, and the answer invariably involves some glib superstition about baby-thieving otherworldly creatures or suchlike..
What is religion but a unified and glorified cluster of superstitions that fit around each other well?
Does this mean that those who follow traditions whos meaning and significance is lost to them but do it out of some kind of religious rancour, never quite getting the point, the same as when they go to church every sunday and forget to ask themselves why they're prepared to swallow the tripe of peity when they're not willing to stretch thier mind far enough to consider that the earth was not in fact created in 4004BC?
Are all traditionalists religious?
How many people, as a percentage, go to a religious gathering on a regular basis out of free choice, instead of inheritance or tradition?
And while I sit here mourning the fact that people are so blind and stuck in thier ways and unenlightened, I smoke a cigarette...
Ignorance is bliss.
I can't help but find myself looking upon the traditionalists mindset not unlike I see severely brain damaged people - Not quite all there so you can't just *expect* the same from them as you can with non-disadvantaged people, but it pays to be kind to them since you never really know for sure how much real human being is left in there.
Traditions, for the most part, are built on some kind of logic, but long after the original logic is forgotten, somone will ask why it's done that way, and the answer invariably involves some glib superstition about baby-thieving otherworldly creatures or suchlike..
What is religion but a unified and glorified cluster of superstitions that fit around each other well?
Does this mean that those who follow traditions whos meaning and significance is lost to them but do it out of some kind of religious rancour, never quite getting the point, the same as when they go to church every sunday and forget to ask themselves why they're prepared to swallow the tripe of peity when they're not willing to stretch thier mind far enough to consider that the earth was not in fact created in 4004BC?
Are all traditionalists religious?
How many people, as a percentage, go to a religious gathering on a regular basis out of free choice, instead of inheritance or tradition?
And while I sit here mourning the fact that people are so blind and stuck in thier ways and unenlightened, I smoke a cigarette...
Ignorance is bliss.