has society become too instant?

jon boy · 03.30.2009, 09:13 PM

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.

demonrail666 · 03.30.2009, 09:23 PM

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

terminal pharmacy · 03.30.2009, 09:43 PM

depends where you live

atsonicpark · 03.30.2009, 09:46 PM

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.

demonrail666 · 03.30.2009, 10:52 PM

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

jon boy · 03.30.2009, 11:28 PM

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.

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 03.30.2009, 11:39 PM

pbradley · 03.31.2009, 12:19 AM

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.

pbradley · 03.31.2009, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by jon boy

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.

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.

pbradley · 03.31.2009, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jon boy

i remember when people didnt mind if things took a while

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.

deflinus · 03.31.2009, 12:36 AM

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

DeadDiscoDildo · 03.31.2009, 12:50 AM

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

atsonicpark · 03.31.2009, 12:55 AM

amen. new simpsons intro.. ugh.

jon boy · 03.31.2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

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.

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

jon boy · 03.31.2009, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

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.

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?

pbradley · 03.31.2009, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jon boy

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.

pbradley · 03.31.2009, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jon boy

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

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

03.31.2009, 02:22 AM

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.

03.31.2009, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

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.

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

atsonicpark · 03.31.2009, 03:10 AM

Porn's not downloading fast enough for me.

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