The security of tradition

The tradition is from Latin “traditio”, this is the transmission, this is the punctual tale of past events, that have determined the reality of today, and that for some generation has been accepted, by now past, that is the security for whom has seen and has lived the past; it is the security given from a canon or method that can give security because it is habitual, inasmuch secure, and that the old generations won’t lost, why? Simple because the news is unknown, thence somebody can’t manage it he deosn’t  know, and determined methods that were perfect for one, now in front of news can be very bad; for example a driver of a car if he must drive a car of Formula One he has enormous difficult, because he doesn’t what he can make or not because it is new, and the fair of some action is radical because there isn’t experience  certainly, but the inexperience is determined from the not knowledge;; an historical example: a Italian noble lord, Federico da Montefeltro(1422-1482), has refused the new technique of print, in fact in his library, in conformity of tale of Vespasiano de Bisticci(1421-1498), librarian of Montefeltro, the library was full of handwritten alone; it is a historical case of security for the tradition; this is use and custom that give the security to the user, that doesn’t  know the new and refuse of novelty , because it was far from his method; today write again a letter on the table is very ancient, because a email can arrive before and can be give an answer, instead a letter has a major cost, more time and the insecurity of receive it of sender, but who today writes a letter as in the past century has certainly major security, because the writer knows the method, the person and he has more security because he has known this method, inasmuch write a email would be difficult and he would use the old method for the poetical motive or other sentimental causes, that are alone  past method that the lovers of past know better; it is the security. Important is the method that can be know or not, and the progress brings the novelty that can’t understood and it is determining the fair. But it can occurs also for the news generations, because usually we consider alone the past, but if a boy today was brought in 70s years he would has difficult to understand determined habit and customs, because the method would be odd, and he asked immediately where is possible find a computer, and the persons about him would ask what is the computer? Whereby he would have the same difficult.

Alessandro Lusana