Tradere: what we are getting wrong about tradition
And what tradition actually means in every day practice
When I wrote Death to Nationalist Kitsch a lot of you were wondering what tradition means. You often get blamed for live action role playing if you talk about tradition at all. Even people on the right struggle with it…
The problem, both right and left, is the modern idea of tradition: Where tradition as something to be updated when it no longer ‘serves’ us. But that is all consumer mindset: measuring everything by convenience and efficiency.
Real tradition serves what is higher than us, not what is useful to us.
Tradition comes from the Latin tradere: to pass on. Tradition = continuity. Which is found in daily rituals and embodied knowledge.
You can see it in localised production, or in repurposing styles, spaces and tools until they blend into the present.
