why tradition sucks

Just don't pull out the tradition card on me. Several years back at my former work place we were asked what are the one thing we enjoyed most at work. To my surprised we all enjoyed the same activity, unfortunately we only got to do that thing we valued most for just 4 hours a week. When I asked my boss, why not change it to 8 hours a week instead. She pulled out the 'tradition' card on me... ahhhhhh. I couldn't help but wondered, 'why was it that tradition override a better way of doing something?' Obviously none of the employees were completely satisfied with how things were running, but because of tradition we have to let go of any new creative ideas! If tradition is so much more important than evolvement, then why not go back to old school things, i.e. b/w TV, non digital cameras, hunter and gather life style, etc.?

Another episode was with a professor at grad school. He simply pulled the tradition card to justify himself from considering my proposal. The proposal was that instead of reading 8 literature (500+ pages each) for the book exam, I would split the exam into 2 parts by reading 4 literature at a time. I reasoned out to him that I don't have enough time to read all 8 in a month time, as the semester was coming to an end. He thoroughly said, "no, it has been the tradition for a long time." Hmmm... several months later one of my colleague took the book exam and read just 4 books instead of 8, his justification being that he could attend the course that was given in Finnish. WTF, what about the tradition of reading all 8 literature?
Here's another disturbing event: killing dolphins due to tradition

 Really you are going to pull the tradition card as to justify how inhumane this act of killing those mammals?

When someone uses tradition to justify something is the same as reasoning out with "just because..."

And I am not even gonna start with people using tradition to back up why they would be against gay marriage. That's just a poor man argument, so to say. 

Not only that it prohibit the world from progressing, tradition kills creativity. In my opinion, doing something solely based on tradition is completely ignorant, not implying that tradition is absolutely wrong, bad, not that I have no respect for tradition. It's okay to practice a tradition if you have a sound reason to keep it alive.

That's my two cents!