Do you agree with this statement?

Question

"Tradition overwhelmes efficiency."

Please elaborate.

klutass I asked the question because I was thinking and suddenly this truth appeared "Tradition overwhelmes efficiency". I asked it here just to see other people's reaction. And you know, what I was thinking about was religion.

Answer 1

i agree, this feels like an essay question, but anyways yeah. there is a majority of individuals that would like to cling on to primitive mentality rather than advance towards a different society with the potential to thrive. I'll assume u live in the states, traditionally men had all the power and privileges that come with power. Contrarily, women were frowned at for holding jobs. After WWI, women validated their enrichness, ergo, our society has undboubtedly benifited.
Although, i don't think a country that has it's legal principles mimicking christian values, religion i dare say is very traditional, can progresses smoothly without conflict and time.

"Tradition overwhelmes efficiency" why do u ask? i'm just curious.

Answer 2

Sadly, this seems to be the case, even in Western Society. Look at our adopted mode of travel & the internal combustion engine that runs solely on VERY finite "fossil fuels." I've come to understand that the technology that would make possible a water-driven engine was conceived of a long time ago, but those in the automotive industry bought out or literally buried the inventor, so that the plans would never come to light. There are many more instances where "traditional" status quo interests succeed in "overwhelming" what would otherwise be a great leap in efficiency, but you get the idea.

Answer 3

Completely!

For example, I've been working at the same job for five years. We have a system for booking days off in place that is makes the schedule an absolute gong show, but the GM won't replace it with something more efficient because he's been using it for ten years.

Or the fact that my family drives well out of their way to go to a certain church for Ukrainian Easter, even though that particular church is much too far for my grandfather to travel to (and he's the one that's Ukrainian!) Wouldn't it be much more efficient to go to a nearer Ukrainian church? But, of course, my mother has been going there since she can remember, so we can't break the tradition!

Answer 4

Not necessarily, first lets look at tradition. Tradition is something that is a ritual, something that might be passed down, it is also know as a method of doing something. Okay next is overwhelmes, the best way to describe this is, to overcome completely. And third is efficiency meaning to produce results with little waste of effort. So basically what that saying is telling us is that.... A method of doing something ritually completely overcomes producing results with little waste of effort.

That to me is incorrect.

Answer 5

Very true. For instance in our country, when they harvest rice, some
tribal groups undergo so many rituals instead of just proceeding with the task. No bad though because they preserve the culture. Only problem is, some rituals are no longer practical.

Answer 6

Well, I'm 57 and each year my family has this ridiculous tradition of reminding me of my birthday, it would be much more efficient it it had stopped at 39....

Answer 7

It seems pretty much true. People get in to habits or patterns of dealing with things, so when there's a better way to deal with an issue people tend to go with what's safe, what's known to work for sure, rather than to try something new and unproven.

Answer 8

yes tradition should always come first its part of who we are and what we stand for

Answer 9

Yes.....People tend to say "but we do it this way....it's the way we've always done it." My answer is.....if we subscribe to that logic, we'd still be putting out fires with a bucket brigade.

Answer 10

Unfortunately true