This is ludicrous. Traditions, as myths, are stories we tell ourselves. That is, social engineered stuff that stick around, because people care to keep them ar

This is ludicrous. Traditions, as myths, are stories we tell ourselves. That is, social engineered stuff that stick around, because people care to keep them around, for various reasons (some, only for the ludicrous reason that "people told it that way before, we shall not change a bit of it"). Your civilization, our civilization, _has_ no future. Not one civilization on earth has had a future that spanned more than a few millennia. History is full of only that: civilization, as people, appear, grow, and die into something else. They all evolved, changed, disappeared, what have you.