Modern people are unmoored by tradition. They have to make decisions about things that were before not decisions. Whether to get married or not is an interesting question. All the religious, family, cultural norms that ruled over those things are going away. And they are being replaced by other things.
Traditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop our capacity for deferred gratification, and even, in the case of how we prepare cassava, protect us from poisoning. Listen as the author of Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures talks with EconTalk Russ Roberts about tradition, religion, tribalism, resilience, and emergent order.