Tradition?

[Larry124]

Tradition is at its best about memory, heritage, respect, sentiment, nostalgia, comfort and pleasure -- perhaps preservation and reenactment as well.

At worst it is idolatry – a sacred cow, a golden calf, an icon, an asserted "self-evident" argument topper. Avoid those.


P.S. Forgive me if "sacred cow" is no longer an acceptable expression. These days one never knows.