That’s a useful overview of the everlasting chaotic change, something we short-lived and memory-impaired creatures tend to forget, and think that “things always been a certain way, but now they are suddenly changing and I don’t like it!” Most “traditions” are way younger than people think. Any equilibrium lasting a couple of generations becomes “it has always been that way” in the minds of regular folks. One of the few insightful stories in the old testament was that it takes 40 years to squeeze a slave mindset out of a people. Not sure if this is an angle you were going for.
That’s a useful overview of the everlasting chaotic change, something we short-lived and memory-impaired creatures tend to forget, and think that “things always been a certain way, but now they are suddenly changing and I don’t like it!” Most “traditions” are way younger than people think. Any equilibrium lasting a couple of generations becomes “it has always been that way” in the minds of regular folks. One of the few insightful stories in the old testament was that it takes 40 years to squeeze a slave mindset out of a people. Not sure if this is an angle you were going for.
However traditions are cultivated efforts to inculcate ideas and habits, not merely patterns of similarity.