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peer pressure from people who are already dead.
means a practice repeated across generations until nobody remembers why, only that stopping feels dangerous.
from from latin traditio, to hand over or deliver, originally legal jargon for transferring property before it meant transferring behavior.
invented historymany holiday traditions are under 200 years old
fastest onetraditions can form in a single generation, no centuries required
functionpsychologists link ritual repetition to reduced anxiety, not meaning