i think for young people to day, especially ah, these kind of arguments are deeply unappealing. Tradition and norms have the value we've been talking about, but i think it's a tough sell. I think we're going to get a lot of data about non traditional societies. There are clearly not just limited to the united states, this desire to up end things. It also comes back to my gonger and i were talking about that that is su a governance of, you know, the rules. To think you can figure out the rules in advance is a a big challenge. Butbut there is a time, and likely to fail, when you have to decide to change
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.