growing up i always heard the quote “tradition is the democracy of the dead”. i wish more people treated it as such. i.e., these dead people said they liked things a certain way, but we can disagree with them, criticize their stupid ideas, and change what we don’t like.

but of course you then have the cringe david brooks republicans who think tradition = good, and then it ends up being that tradition is the autocracy of the dead.

i dont think i’d be sniffing dog butts if i spent something like 60 years surrounded by dogs. maybe grandpa was always like that