Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
@scrumble_eggs or as G. K. #Chesterton said, tradition is the Democracy of the dead.
"Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead...
Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father."
@johnquiggin @scrumble_eggs @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr I'm sorry I don't understand your post. Does it relate to the post to which you're replying?
Living grandchildren should count for more than the dead in what regard?
@SecondJon @scrumble_eggs @mpjgregoire shouldn’t children and grandchildren count for more than the dead ?