In Major League Baseball, there is a debate between “old” scouting observations and analytics.

In politics, it is an argument over whether traditional polls are still worth paying attention to or whether social media is a better indicator of public sentiment.

Even household chores have gotten in on the act; do new energy saving appliances clean better than the old energy hogs?

No matter where you look old versus new is an eternal debate affecting virtually everything.

There is even a debate over whether traditional methods of bushcraft are more important than understanding how to use modern tools to do stuff like starting fires.

What you believe is largely subject to personal preference and how important you feel it is to know how to use primitive tools versus only caring about results.

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