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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by cratermoon on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:49PM (#32975303)
Progress itself is a tradition, but a relatively recent one, and not one deserving reverence. At least, not any more.
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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by stirfish on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:15PM (#32975607)
Don't tear down progress until you can say why we make progress in the first place.
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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by api on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:57PM (#32975385)
… says someone who if they are posting on HN has very likely never known actual hunger or true poverty and has all humanity’s history and knowledge at their fingertips instantly.

The problem with progress is that it makes people so comfortable and privileged that they dream up inane fantasy ideologies that question progress and harken back to the imaginary golden ages from which their ancestors painfully crawled.

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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by cratermoon on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:01AM (#32983224)
No one is fetishizing the past. It's simply a fact that progress is not a inevitable, not a law of nature. We live in a time when one generation is objectively less well off than their parents. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/14/economics-v...
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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by klyrs on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:04PM (#32975481)
How recent is relatively recent in your mind?
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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by cratermoon on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:59AM (#32983189)
No earlier than the Age of Enlightenment and at least by the Industrial Revolution.
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