Modernity functions as an economic and social tool to achieve some wealth, flexibility, and innovation for individuals and groups; Tradition functions, partly and at times largely, as a mythological state which produces the sensation of larger connectedness and stability in the face of shockingly massive social change over the last half-century. One might also say that Modernity is an economic force with social, cultural, and political correlatives; Tradition is a cultural force with social, economic, and political correlatives.

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I guess we need to have a mutual respect.
Tradition and modernity play an important and specific role in society.

What would happen if all are modernists?
What would happen if all are traditionalists?