Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Dennisk
From : Moondog
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 11:20:00

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Dennisk to Moondog on Wed Aug 19 2020 10:23 pm


 > 
 > Tradition does need to be question, but not discarded.  Tradition and herita
 > has two functions we don't appreciate.  Firstly, tradition within it, has
 > centuries and generations worth of knowledge, gained by trial and error, oft
 > painfully.  WE may not be able to explain why certain traditions or cultural
 > mores are the way they are, but they nevertheless behind them, may contain m
 > hard learned wisdon.  Heritage also gives us grounding, and anchors us to a
 > particular part of the patchwork of humanity, the part where we may best fit
 > 

While it's important to learn from the past, we don't live in the past.  We
learn so we don't repeat the same mistakes.  As a society grows, tradition
must be challenged as it is "the way we've always done it."  This is tribal
thinking.  It's like the son of the chief asking why they go on a traditional
 hunt, when it is easier to grow crops and domesticate penned in animals? 
The son's ideas are new and untried, regardless if they make any sense. 
That's not the way they have done things for as long as the chief remembers.

Heritage does not define who you are.  It defines the people before you.  It
could be argued that everything you are came from them, but that is not true,
especially if you have relocated to a different town or even a country.  I
may have Irish and a good deal of Eastern and Central European blood in my
family's past, but I am none of them.

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