has society become too instant?
 

we want things now and seemingly have lost patience with everything. i remember when people didnt mind if things took a while now we get annoyed if our downloads or our coffee take five seconds too long.

I suppose the answer, quite obviously, is "yes".

depends where you live

Yeah, I've talked about this on another thread. Some of the magic in life has disappeared now that everything is a click away. Of course, no one's forcing anyone to be like that. Society has become more instant... and more distant.

I suppose the problem is that while most of us can see it's downsides, we still demand it.

we just seem so lazy nowadays, we dont seek things out in the same way anymore. everything can be downloaded in a sec and news is all so instant.

It isn't instant enough for most people.

It's often too instant for me.

I want to sleep in and when the day ends I wonder what all happened in that blur.

Lazy? I don't understand how faster is lazier or even how easier is necessarily lazier. In fact, the speed if instantaneous everything makes people the opposite of lazy to the point that they don't take in everything in between. I get my fast coffee with my fast news while I take my fast car to my fast work and then take a fast lunch etc.

I doubt this. Perhaps "a while" in our terms but certainly not "a while" in their time. It's not like impatience was invented yesterday.

i think the fact that the simpsons suck now has a lot to do with it...

not really, but i just wanted to say that the simpsons suck now. anyone catch the new intro? fucking terrible

^^sorry, the simpsons lost it's spark with me years ago.

amen. new simpsons intro.. ugh.

lazy as in we dont have to try anymore. sitting infront of screens and not finding anything out for ourselves etc.

but with everything happening so fast if we dont get it now now now then we become un interested and bored and why is this taking so fast. get it?

No.

Ten years ago, a lady would still complain if the drive-thru took ten minutes longer than she expected.

People delayed at airports still became hostile.

Some asshole would still passive aggressively tailgate a car on a highway.

Patience is relative but always in short supply.

You did your own reporting "back in the day"?

Any society that only offers self-criticism and vagueness as a mean of resistance is just as bad as one that doesn't. Weak, irrelevant, annoying protest is even worse than downloads.

Magic hasn't disappeared from society altogether, there isn't any in most people. Nothing new.

Porn's not downloading fast enough for me.

What did people use to chase?

foxes?

ah that's right, it's political correctness gone mad!

People have substituted actual cool and fun things with boring and mundane things, and then can't figure out why they are always bored. They can't understand why every video game gets old, but they keep going out and buying them in hopes to fix this, instead of going rock climbing or hiking or something that is always fun to do.

But this is off topic of things being to instant. In a more related note:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news...aking_too_long

I'm not going to pretend to dislike the speed of today's society. It is the result of a changing society. Neither good nor bad. Things happen more rapidly, and perhaps society's impatience has grown with it, but might this not further encourage the research and development of technology that got us here in the first place?

We're at the end of the first decade of a new millennium people! Don't be stuck in the past for some indie-cred or nostalgia!

I do not have bandwidth issues, but I'll tell you, if my coffee is ready BEFORE I arrive, heads will roll.

I found myself doing the whole deliberately audible sigh routine in the supermarket this morning, while waiting to pay for my stuff. It was ridiculous. The guy in front asked a couple of perfectly reasonable questions to the girl on the till and I was ready to rain blows down on his head with my triple-can pack of drainless tuna chunks. And to think, I haven't had a properly busy day since around 1986.

tl;dr

no. must i explain everything to you?

i am talking society as a whole not specific things that have always been that way.

that'll slow em down, chase the dragon instead of their tail

Bender: "Let's just pray I have the energy to get myself another beer. [Presses button on remote. Beer spills onto Bender's chest] Oh, what is this, the Middle Ages?!"

Voice on TV:" Is today's hectic lifestyle making you tense and impatient?"
Bender: "SHUT UP AND GET TO THE POINT!"

Ugh indeed.

:|

Goes to show arguing with nostalgic idealism is impossible.

as of now, society has become a shit flinging eskimo woman that i'm going to drill for oil. trust me the polar bears are going to LIKE it

longmont potion castle can't put out a new album quickly enough

Notice the downturned mouth all these top phychics have. Is it to supress the giggle reflex when he puts one over another gumbie?

Thank you, though I obviously take influence from others both here and elsewhere. It takes a village.