I agree. Study can only help things. I hate everything 'in the tradition'. Perhaps education would have cured this mental block.

I don't think so. But I can see that 'the tradition' is the view of te generality, and if the folk scene was a democracy, I would have lost my deposit.

You stick with it, kid. They have things to teach you - so does the world, but if things continue as they are - you can forget the world.