/pol/lock unlocks the final boomer red pill
I think a lot of the “traditions” that millennials are dropping out of are just the things that people used to be convinced they needed but never knew why. So when we don’t have the money for a lawn or a set of china we never use or a creepy-ass elf statue to sit on a shelf at Christmas, we stop and think about why we would want this thing, what justifies the trouble and expense, and come up completely blank except for a vague notion of “tradition”. My mom frequently complains about sourgrass or dandelions taking over her yard and I am just incapable of figuring out why beautiful flowers, delicious salad components, and potential medicine, all for free, somehow detracts from the value of this square of stunted grass that she’s convinced she needs. Or what about Christmas cards? A few awkward phrases and a terrible photo or two, once a year, to remind people that you don’t care enough about to stay in contact with that you continue to do things they don’t care enough to ask about? What purpose does that serve, besides Tradition? How about school yearbooks? Nobody has ever used them, except as a platform for dumb jokes or a way to get dirt on somebody they’re stalking. Everybody you care about, you have better mementos and actual modes of contact, and everybody else in the book is better forgotten as you move on with your life. But every student has to pay forty bucks for them every year because it’s Traditional. I’m not saying there aren’t good and useful traditions. But you have to look at everything you’re doing and if you can’t answer why you’re doing it, just stop already.
another example of how capitalism poisons minds and ruins families
