How is it that “tradition” turned out to be so fragile and easy to do away with?

The fact that most cultures have traditions measured in dozens of lifespans or more, how is that they were so easily dispelled by modernity? One would look at the longevity of traditions as a testament to their robustness, but clearly something else is going on.

My best guess as of this writing:
>the success of tradition had much more to do with lack of competition than actual merit.
That’s not to say I don’t think my traditions have merit, but here’s the thing: I see much less merit in other culture’s traditions; I imagine the same is true in reverse.

I have a BIAS toward my culture’s traditions. The bias resists but does not oppose alternative methods in a pragmatic sense, but recoils at alternative culture’s more “decorative” traditions.
I digress. It’s fair to say most people who today support a “trad life” share this bias. Possible reasons:
>genetic predisposition
>indoctrination
Both of these are plausible and it is likely some combination.

But the bias is either not very strong, or somehow absent in a large portion of the population. We can see this through modernity and its absolute rejection of tradition and reason. I suspect these are what we call “NPCs”, but I prefer “lemmings”

Now, I’m not saying all leftists are lemmings and I’m not saying all lemmings are leftist, it’s just a personality type that largely presents in that distribution. They are a sub-consciousness (think like “sub-species” rather than in the psychological sense) that adhered to a cultures collective consciousness in a pseudo-parasitic nature. They’ve been both helpful and harmful and represented a sort of wildcard faction that mirrors and amplifies whatever they perceive as the dominant position at the time.

I believe these lemmings have been weaponized to a tremendous degree.

>>510702103 (OP)
>lemmings
that damn grizzly bear

Traditional ways have been mocked for decades.
>Going to church is not cool listen to this rock music instead.
>Its racist to hold onto old ways

>>510702457
going to church used to be guys in robes chanting in Latin and most people had no idea what the fuck was happening, they still don't.

>>510702103 (OP)
1. There is a concerted effort by the (((usual suspects))) to do away with tradition
2. Advent of new technologies presents new situations and challenges that tradition does not have an answer for. Technology was relatively stagnant for centuries and has exploded in the past two centuries.
3. Forget who came up with this quote but "Tradition is a solution for problems that have been forgotten. Remove the tradition and the problem returns."
4. Bias towards tradition was never necessary in the past because there was no other choice; you parents raised you based on tradition that was shared by the entirety of the society you lived in and the only way you would get a chance to live in a society based on a different tradition would be to move. Mass transportation makes migration easier and mass communication makes dissemination of information related to alternative traditions and lifestyles easier.

>>510702562
I definitely considered the change in technology, and perhaps that made things easier, but there is clearly an engineered plan here.

I believe “The Great Reset” is meant to be an erasure of tradition, leaving only the lemming sub-consciousness left.

>>510702103 (OP)
tradition was largely meant to accentuate the passing of time

for thousands of years, man lived in an information dark-age where the only news received came from outside of a little farm village
war was often the most interesting thing that could happen in your lifetime, and often peasantry would die in the same generational home they were born in
the problem with global information (modernism, the internet, total access to all data) is that time passes very quickly and there's very little time left for those 'space filler' traditions that served little purpose other than togetherness (90% of european culture and folklore is effectively a product of boredom)

things will only continue to ((accelerate)) until we remove the ones who insist on keeping their foot on the gas