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Tradition is something difficult to explain for many people. It seems to just be “the way things were/ought to be”. However if one sees Tradition for what it is, they will be able to see it as “what works”.
A civilization is born when a large group of people cooperate in a selfish manner, according to their evolutionary goals. These “evolutionary goals” are survival, and “Self Perpetuation” (the survival of one’s own bloodline for the foreseeable and unforeseeable future) which are the most important and basic. There are other goals that I will call “instinctual goals”. These were first understood by Abraham Maslow in his Hierarchy of Needs. Evolutionary goals are the most important, while instinctual goals are secondary (and ordered along the Hierarchy of Needs). Civilization is formed by people trying to improve their chances of self-perpetuation and ensure their own survival.
Now there are many ways of organizing a society, and there are many ways of ensuring the achievement of these evolutionary and instinctual goals. All these can be called traditions, but there when speaking from a civilized perspective. A society like that of the !Kung where a successful hunter is mocked in order that he not think himself better than the others in his tribe is certainly a “tradition” but it is not a civilized Tradition. When I speak of Tradition, I speak of the Traditions that lead to civilizations. Tradition is about hierarchy and exclusivity. When one compares the various Traditions of many of the most important civilizations of regions such as the West, Near East, Far East, North Africa, South Asia, Mesoamerica and South America, he can see these values repeating.
Everyone from the Sumerians, to the Romans, to Chinese followed a similar structure with intense hierarchy, and they all had their stories of heroes and warriors that were impossible to live up to in actuality. This is the opposite of the !Kung who have yet to progress past the stone age. While the Traditional peoples believe in exalting the superior, the savages try to enforce egalitarianism. Traditional peoples tend to have very set gender norms and roles. For example, The Amerindian Aztecs would bury the umbilical cord of a male baby in the battlefield while they’d bury the umbilical cord of a female child under the house to symbolize their future roles in society, while the various uncivilized Amerindian tribes would exalt “two spirits” who were the equivalent to modern homosexuals and “genderfluids”.
Even leftist anthropologists admit that hierarchical (Traditional) societies are superior. The only explanation leftists seem to give is that hierarchical civilizations are much stronger than egalitarian ones, and can easily overtake them, but that egalitarian societies would be just as viable if they were given a chance away from Traditional ones. Of course, this just proves the point of this document; the most viable way to run a society is the Traditional way. This can be seen to be happening in heavily egalitarian societies like that of Sweden, where it is at risk of being conquered by Russia, and its hyper-egalitarian immigration policy has made it the rape capital of Europe, and Sweden continues to decline as we speak. This is the consequence of leaving Tradition for abstraction, a weakling society that is open to conquest.
It is important to note that Tradition does not come from a book. A Tradition can be formed using a book as its base, but Tradition is mostly organic. One could use any piece of literature to create a group which (overtime) would form an organic Tradition which would come about due to the evolutionary and instinctual goals. The starting documents and/or ideologies are not important. Through survival of the fittest among societies, Traditional civilization will conquer any land it appears in; the weakling egalitarian, matriarchal, and abstracted societies will die, and Traditionalist civilizations will spread.
