No, I won't give you that.Given that most of its functions are obsolete and superfluous — CuddlyHedgehog
Stability, and also if something works, no need to change it.why do humans feel the need to perpetuate it? — CuddlyHedgehog
Given that most of its functions are obsolete and superfluous, why do humans feel the need to perpetuate it? — CuddlyHedgehog
Stability, and also if something works, no need to change it. — Agustino
Don't we then sacrifice creativity and individualism for the sake of social conformity and acceptance? — CuddlyHedgehog
Please elaborate on how you associate creativity with lack of standards and individualism with selfish narcissism. Harsh and inaccurate representation of both in my opinion. — CuddlyHedgehog
Exactly, so then you need both elements of stability (tradition) and elements of exploration (novelty, new approaches, etc.).Something new and different might work better. Just because things have always been done one way it doesn't mean it is the right or best way. — CuddlyHedgehog
Given that most of its functions are obsolete and superfluous, why do humans feel the need to perpetuate it? — CuddlyHedgehog
A large proportion of tradition consists of ritualistic and ethnically idiosyncratiocratic routines that serve no practical purpose. They are merely a lazy, mindless, unquestioned adoption of regurgitated beliefs and conventions that get in the way of free thinking and innovation. — CuddlyHedgehog
I thought shopping malls were an all-American ethnic idiosyncrasy, no? — CuddlyHedgehog
I thought you were referring to the almighty american "shopping mall". — CuddlyHedgehog
When you can buy the same things at the same stores, in the same malls, in every town in all 50 states and all around the world, it's hard to think of them as idiosyncratic. — T Clark
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