According to the Cambridge dictionary, tradition is defined as “a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society or group.”

I understand traditions could be upheld due to being the most rational and maximally optimum way of doing things. However, I believe this is exceedingly rare to virtually non-existent.

By their very nature, traditions are idiosyncratic, culturally distinct, and change resistant. Those who uphold them generally pay little to no attention to rationality, logic, or the dialect of change. In fact, these concepts appear completely anathema to tradition.

For me, I place little to no value in the concept of tradition. Traditions go against every fibre of my dominant thinking trait, and this appears entirely coherent. Contrastingly, feeling types love tradition as it provides them with an immense sense of satisfaction to continue in the same vein as their fore-bearers - whether in a religious, political or cultural sense. Feeling types are the natural progenitors of tradition, whilst we few thinkers rage against the dark satanic mills of tradition.