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Tradition rule (leminal.space)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

growing up i always heard the quote “tradition is the democracy of the dead”. i wish more people treated it as such. i.e., these dead people said they liked things a certain way, but we can disagree with them, criticize their stupid ideas, and change what we don’t like.

but of course you then have the cringe david brooks republicans who think tradition = good, and then it ends up being that tradition is the autocracy of the dead.