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Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies

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The Evolution of Tradition

Traditionalism is based on accumulated tradition, and every now and then it gets codified rit. It's done in a community of people who can share this tradition, rather than by the state with all its coercive power. There are four important aspects to making this process evolve in a way that you kow result an adaptive system of social norms. In one of them we discussed already, which is, the change has to be kind of slow. You don't want to change very dramatically. But most of the time it's kind of a very much bottom up of aggregation, the collective view of things. And there are certain hard and fast rules - but they really ought to be certain things

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