Generally, understanding cause and effect of dismantling tradition is hard. That’s what the Cassava root example demonstrates.
It doesn’t follow from the text, it’s just based on my anecdotal experience.
It’s not clear to me how anecdotal experience would form a basis for that. Anecdotal experience can tell you that you are valuing tradition less then the average person, but not really whether most of your experiences of getting rid of tradition have complex unforeseen negative experiences that are more like getting rid of Cassava root prep.
You can question a tradition without getting rid of it.
To be more concrete, what I have in mind are things like religious traditions (e.g. “light a candle in the church”) or superstitions (e.g. “don’t sing at the table because you’ll marry a gypsy”) or even culinary traditions that differ between cultures. Occasionally people in my family have insisted on such things after I explicitly question them and despite evidence disproving them.
Religion is a complex topic and is a tradition that does provide benefits like community cohesion. If you do accept that you want to pursue those goals candles are a useful tool which is why the secular solstice that we rationalist have uses candles.
It might not be your taste but probably it’s just something we you lack the understanding of the value it provides.
Explicitly questioning things you don’t understand like Cassava root treatment does not allow you do understand all their benefits.
Generally, understanding cause and effect of dismantling tradition is hard. That’s what the Cassava root example demonstrates.
It’s not clear to me how anecdotal experience would form a basis for that. Anecdotal experience can tell you that you are valuing tradition less then the average person, but not really whether most of your experiences of getting rid of tradition have complex unforeseen negative experiences that are more like getting rid of Cassava root prep.
You can question a tradition without getting rid of it.
To be more concrete, what I have in mind are things like religious traditions (e.g. “light a candle in the church”) or superstitions (e.g. “don’t sing at the table because you’ll marry a gypsy”) or even culinary traditions that differ between cultures. Occasionally people in my family have insisted on such things after I explicitly question them and despite evidence disproving them.
Religion is a complex topic and is a tradition that does provide benefits like community cohesion. If you do accept that you want to pursue those goals candles are a useful tool which is why the secular solstice that we rationalist have uses candles.
It might not be your taste but probably it’s just something we you lack the understanding of the value it provides.
Explicitly questioning things you don’t understand like Cassava root treatment does not allow you do understand all their benefits.