Tradition and Progress How often are “progress” and “tradition” treated as opposite terms? It is not only Jacobins that do this, painting, as they do, tradition as “an impediment to progress”, but a large portion of people who would self-identify as “on the right”, also agree on the mutual exclusivity of these terms. With the popularization of Ted Kaczynski, whose MK Ultra background does not seem to bother people, the phrase “return to tradition” being plastered everywhere, and the conceptualization of reaction as the desire of reinstating feudal monarchy, the right has done as much damage to the idea of tradition as the left.
Progress Within Tradition
Progress Within Tradition
Progress Within Tradition
Tradition and Progress How often are “progress” and “tradition” treated as opposite terms? It is not only Jacobins that do this, painting, as they do, tradition as “an impediment to progress”, but a large portion of people who would self-identify as “on the right”, also agree on the mutual exclusivity of these terms. With the popularization of Ted Kaczynski, whose MK Ultra background does not seem to bother people, the phrase “return to tradition” being plastered everywhere, and the conceptualization of reaction as the desire of reinstating feudal monarchy, the right has done as much damage to the idea of tradition as the left.