traditionalism

is pessimism about the future and optimism about the past.

Traditionalist are pessimist about the future and optimist about the past. (Lewis Mumford)

is a weakness. They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes: The valuable part is underground.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. Francis Bacon

is the manipulation of cultural patterns to legitimate contemporary social realities.

The second part to his argument concerns traditionalism which he defines as 'the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities..' (Bestor 1989:2).

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traditionalism