Traditions are often illogical, but the deepest aspects of our lives in this Vale of Tears frequently have little to do with logic. The modern world suffers from many maladies due to an attempt to live without any guiding traditions.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This Truth is completely lost on most moderns: “Chesterton’s Fence is a simple rule of thumb that suggests you should never destroy a fence, change a rule, or alter a tradition if you do understand why it is there-“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qPGbl2gxGqI
traditions are the solutions to problems no one remembers. Remove the traditions and you get your problems back without any possible solutions to solve them. Idiots change what they can’t understand.
David WS- completely agree.
(My kids will attest that they have heard the phrase Chesterton’s Fence from me “a million times”!)