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I think I got the original post slightly off.

I was critiquing Sam Kriss\u2019 claim that the best traditions come from \u201cjust doing stuff\u201d, without trying to tie things back to anything in the past.

The counterexample I was thinking of was all the 2010s New Atheist attempts to reinvent \u201cchurch, but secular\u201d. These were well-intentioned. Christians get lots of benefits from going to church, like a good community. These benefits don\u2019t seem obviously dependent on the religious nature. So instead of tying your weekly meeting back to what Jesus and St. Peter and so on said two thousand years ago, why not \u201cjust do stuff\u201d and have a secular weekly meeting?

Most of these attempts fell apart. One of them, the Sunday Assembly, clings to existence but doesn\u2019t seem too successful. People with ancient traditions 1, people who just do stuff 0.

But after thinking about it more, maybe this isn\u2019t what Sam means.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/clarification-on-fake-tradition-is\xa0