>>18510393You praise the great deeds of your ancestors and hope that one day you will leave your progeny with things to praise about you and your generation. By praising your ancestors achievements you are encouraging and rewarding people for acting in the interests of future generations, and demonstrating some willingness to safeguard the inheritance given to you by previous generations.
In your atomized worldview your ancestors' accomplishments are irrelevant and only your own can be praised you've given people one less reason to act selflessly and more reason to act selfishly. Maybe this is why these individualist/nihilist mentalities are so common today:
>what does it matter what I do I'll be dead and it'll all be forgotten and for nothing>fuck future generations I'll be dead by thenYou might argue that good people should just be selfless for generations hundreds or thousands of years without ever expecting praise. This could be partly true but it overlooks the huge role that hero worship and praise plays in the motivation of men. Just look how many normies love capeshit. Praising your ancestors is probably less cringe than praising imaginary characters.
