Look, I get why people romanticize tradition. It feels stable, tested, handed down by people who had skin in the game. But here's the thing—tradition often survives just because it's old, not because it's good. Plenty of traditions were brutal, fragile systems that collapsed the moment pressure hit. Modernity isn't perfect, but it's antifragile in a way tradition isn't. We question things now. We stress-test ideas. We don't just accept that grandpa's way was best because he said so. Modern medicine, for example, saves lives tradition never could. And yeah, modern life has its own fragilities—over-reliance on tech, loss of community. But I'd rather have a system that admits its faults and adapts than one that clings to "how it's always been" until it breaks. Tradition gets credit for surviving, but modernity actually learns.