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The Invention of Tradition

Revolution and Ideology

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The Tradition of Thanksgiving

The tradition of thanksgiving was a clearly invented tradition. It has socialized us into like, i mean, i'm not saying all of it is evil or bad per se. And because we have this now tradition where we can absolve ourselves of those sins if we're grateful and we give thanks. There's obviously a religious overtone there as well. The problem with that, the normalization of that through the thanksgiving mythology, is that we see it normalized in later us.

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