Is tradition valuable, or does it bind people to outdated ways?

Hank has called tradition very good since 2019, worrying in 2023 that connections to the past are too easy to lose and defending in 2025 harmless weird rules that make us us.

Axis: tradition is valuable and worth keeping ... tradition binds people to outdated ways

Positions by date: 5 records in 5 videos. The position was refined (2025), never reversed, in these records.

Hank

date	how	position	video
2019-08-03	first on record	Hank, perhaps just getting old, thinks the existence of tradition is very good.	I Love John: Esther Day 2019 00:01:30
2023-06-16	restate	Hank thinks it is too easy these days to lose connections to our past, friends, communities, families, places, nations, religions and histories.	So, About This HAIR… 00:00:53
2024-06-14	restate	Hank says sacred days are an important cultural technology that we have not found ways to rebuild in secular traditions.	Some Reasons why People Suck 00:05:24
2025-04-04	restate	Hank says silly norms and taboos are good as long as they don't control people in harmful ways: in general it is good to have some weird rules that make us us.	Morality 00:03:58
2025-10-24	refine	Hank says tradition may be hardest to overcome, because books still hold a rarefied space that changing them too much might diminish, one of their biggest assets.	What Will Books Become? 00:05:13