Tradition in "The Lottery"

"`Tradition': one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking."


Today in class I was introduced to this quote and was asked to interpretation it. In my own words, my interpretation of this quote is that conseratative people chose to not expand their mind. They only want to stick with what they know, a shortcut to thinking allows them to not have to do all the work by stretching their mind and asking questions, instead they stick to their own tradition.