Every Tradition that exists or has existed was once new. If a tradition keeps long enough people begin to think: “it must be good and true this tradition, otherwise it would not have survivred as long!”
Q: What is a tradition and where does it come from?
A: nswers(2)
1. Tradition is somthing that has been done in the past and it worked. So is it kept to do it the way it worked back then in the hope it will always turn to work in the future. One example here is crafting tradition. Another is the law tradition. ( precedence: the way it has been judged back then and solved the problem will be kept on and on.)
2. Tradition is a way of repeating things that have been done in the past to rember an event or person. Most hollydays for example go back to some event or are commemorating a person. One could say Hollydays are tradition.( even newyear)
Let us look at the law traditon a bit closer
While the way the law was used or introduced in the past has worked then, it does not have to work everytime or forever. Things change over time. The values of societys change over time. What once was right (they tought and accepted) doesnt have to stay right when new philosophy reveals mistakes in the thinking!
Q: What’s all that fear about foreigners and other cultures?
A: When people from outside move in a closed community with all nice working systems of traditions, they bring along other traditions that can contradict the local ones. The fear that arrises here is born out of the thinking that nothing is going to work anymore if the contradicting tradition is accepted.
Now* we are faced with the fact that we have to change most traditions in order to survive.
a:) We have to change all traditions that put homo sapiens in the middle of everything. Life and love have to stay in the middle!
b:) We have to change all traditions that put the man in the middle. The woman is in the middle, the man is orbiting and both are equal, walking hand in hand!
c:) We have to change all traditions that put profit and personal gain in the middle. Surviving of mankind is in the middle**! A just and free society is in the middle! A community where no one is left behind is in the middle! The children are in the middle!
Every tradition was once brand new! Let us create new traditions full of color, engulfing love and pulsating life. Let the new traditions be just and fair.
No one who wants to suvive can keep all his traditions. They radicaly have to change most of them into somthing realy new.
*writen November 2022 somewhere on Earth
** protecting life is in the middle of surviving of mankind!
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