Quote of the Day

“Tradition is the illegitimate son of grief. Tradition is a way to honor the unknowable generations that came before, to show them the false respect of unquestioning alliegance [sic]. Slavery was a tradition. Patriarchy was a tradition. There are lots of traditions that decrepit old orders imposed when their ideas lost the shine of truth. Tradition is the stuff of rot, the stuff of a culture living in the past. Tradition is the mummy of the old regime.” — New York Times reader April Fitzcarraldo, on the subject of censorship in “a nation of heretics and revolutionaries” (i.e., ours).