Traditions

cannot be willfully revived. Julian the Apostate tried and failed miserably.

When tradition has authority, it is only dimly recognized, if at all, as tradition. Rather, it is experienced as an indisputable way of life, a foundational orientation of unfathomable origin. Tradition has to have divine origin, otherwise it is merely a human ordnance and human ordnances can be amended or abolished altogether. A tradition that is vital is all-enclosing and spellbinding. It is the shape of a society, the form of its coherence. Once undone, the spell is broken and can only be replaced by another spell, another myth, another metaphysical "fiction." But not by some jerry-rigged, voluntaristic revival of the tradition that has collapsed.

Voluntary traditionalism is just LARPing. 

Come to think of it, so is fascism.