Simply noodling the question, not having read their take on it…
traditions form in contexts, and if they formed in ancient-context, then wouldn’t it be sane to question their validity, nowadays??
Systematically…
that old saw about they guy who calls-up his sister to ask how to cook a roast, gets told the recipe, & asks his sister "why do you have to cut the roast in 2, 1st?, & is told “… I don’t know”, so they call-up their Mom, & it turns-out that their Mom had-to, because the roast wouldn’t fit into the pot that she had, but nobody had questioned that, for years!
Recalibration NEEDS to happen periodically, pruning cruft…
It’s more long-term-efficient to drop traditions when they are mismatching context, than it is to keep orienting to context that we don’t have, anymore, isn’t it?
Simply noodling the question, not having read their take on it…
traditions form in contexts, and if they formed in ancient-context, then wouldn’t it be sane to question their validity, nowadays??
Systematically…
that old saw about they guy who calls-up his sister to ask how to cook a roast, gets told the recipe, & asks his sister "why do you have to cut the roast in 2, 1st?, & is told “… I don’t know”, so they call-up their Mom, & it turns-out that their Mom had-to, because the roast wouldn’t fit into the pot that she had, but nobody had questioned that, for years!
Recalibration NEEDS to happen periodically, pruning cruft…
Ah HA!!
The startup mantram “Fail early, fail often: agile adapting!” applies, here, too!
It’s more long-term-efficient to drop traditions when they are mismatching context, than it is to keep orienting to context that we don’t have, anymore, isn’t it?
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