You have 3 primary domains where values and mechanisms of those values exist or shift between.

When I say values I mean things that are described with one word, even complex words, they are generally immeasurable but outcome focused. Charity, love, ascension, justice ... there are hundreds of words in the English language that fits "values" by tgis standard.

But you also have value mechanisms. Things that seem very ideal to a set of values which lives strongly bot only in publications but in people's minds. Things like the bill of rights, the ten commandments, the 8-fold path.

Many of the mechanisms of value systems survive by institution, but institution by itself is not enough. The institutions are only successful if these systems survive by traditions.

Once in a while a mechanism like this arises by mere personal conception. A select group of people publish or take action with an articulable novel principle, and it becomes tradition.

Enter earth. The traditions of values is the fulcrum, and the driver of that fulcrum has been institutions. These institutions, of course, are enslaver designed. The enslavers know that the control cannot be 100% institutional drive. The people manifest traditions, perhaps psionically, in recognition that they were individually developed. They trust traditions based on its creation by benevolent individuals. Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad. These originators were not necessarily nefarious. Their ideas were simply co-opted institutionally.

Ok all of this information is useless for you if you can't apply it.

Tradition, like it or not, is the fulcrum.

Individual traditions get broken all the time. But traditions as an entity are the best survivors on the planet. They survive individual lives, they often survive genocides, they survive revolutions.

The farsight ethos encourages us to abandon institutions. But we're not being encouraged, nor would I realistically encourage, to try abandon traditions. It doesn't matter if you like them or dislike them. The point is they survive better than you do. Even if the ideal thing to do is to break a tradition, you're challenging a battle that is probably not worth fighting. Institutions, on the other hand, are more fragile. They don't just need belief, they need continuous material resources.

There is a way to break institutions while not trying to kill traditions. It's in the traditions where the cognitive dissonance lies. The space where people you had hoped would be your allies will become your enemy.

Go with the grain, take the path of least resistance.

So what are mechanisms of tradition? You're not gonna like it.

The king james bible. The quran. The Vedas. The tao te ching. It's also the constitution, the bill of rights. And today we might also include the book of urantia, the alien interview, the toltec 4 agreements, aesop's fables, Plato's republic.

Traditions are often based on a cherished book or a sacred text, but they can also often be based on a section, a talisman, even just geometry.

My main point is that you're not going to turn the world around attacking traditions. That's like trying to turn a car around when you can actually access the steering wheel.

Let institutions burn, violently if it has to be. Allow traditions to survive. Because they have a life of their own, a will to survive. And as much as it's true: institutions will violently oppose you when you try to destroy them. Well they are a walk in the park compared to traditions.

This, to me, is the path. Keep your traditions. But we, the galactic federation, are here to destroy your institutions.