LazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTradition is just bullying by dead peoplemessage-squaremessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1315arrow-down135
arrow-up1280arrow-down1message-squareTradition is just bullying by dead peopleLazyGit@feddit.org to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month agoread shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”? https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoShirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.
minus-squareU7826391786239@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agook…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”? edit: that’s what i thought. maybe next time, try to figure out what it is you’re trying to say before you try to say it
read shirley jackson’s “the lottery” and tell me a) how was their tradition an “experiment”; and b) how did it “work”?
https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
Shirley Jackson didn’t write any stories about towns where nothing happens. Survival of the fittest twist.
I’m not comparing actual tradition (setting up the Christmas tree to celebrate the passing of the shortest night) with a made up story.
ok…how was the “real” tradition of christmas (which stole the original tradition of the tree) an “experiment,” and how did it “work”?
edit: that’s what i thought. maybe next time, try to figure out what it is you’re trying to say before you try to say it