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scholars-stage.org Tradition Is Smarter Than You Are url: https://scholars-stage.org/tradition-is-smarter-than-you-are/ Tweet url:
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Henrich has dozens of these examples. The common thread pulling them together is that the people whose survival is guaranteed by strict observance of these traditions have no real explanation for why they are following them
we do not (and often cannot) understand just how the traditions we inherit help our survival, and because of that, it is difficult to artificially create replacements
This is why it makes sense to just follow Though it also runs into that problem of what if the traditions are bad