A Culture Of ‘Instant Gratification’ And ‘No Past’. The Consequences?

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The American prayers (now the Universal prayer) ‘Lord, please give me Patience…and I want it NOW’! A strange phenomenon has over taken the world. The ‘instant gratification’. ‘no past’ and ‘disposable culture’ has oven taken us. We want things and we want it now. Parents are no longer teaching their children ‘delayed gratification’. If your baby cries, you instantly put something in their mouths. If your children want (or don’t want) a new toy, you jostle traffic, join long lines, battle parents and make sure your kids have that Christmas toy so desperately advertised. You need to show your child how much you LOVE them. As per technology, your child must have the biggest, fastest and latest electronics gadget to help them think and navigate the day. What is their identity outside of this? In the ancient times of ‘past’ ‘present’ and ‘future’, we had clear cut perception of events happening in sequence. Today camera technology (Wi-Fi, internet, satellite) broadcast events around the world AS IT IS HAPPENING. As a consequence, the is no ‘past’ anymore. We are now streaming in the NOW. We live in the now. There is no time to ponder on past mistakes …we make a decision based on the present and we make it FAST AND FURIOUS. And what about our abuse of resources and our non-biodegradable waste? Disposable this and disposable that. The days of re-use and re-cycle is gone. Why? Products are not MADE durable for reuse. Take water plastic bottles. I use to use a plastic bottle to fill tap water and carry to work. I was told the bottle was not made for that purpose…that the plastic begins to degrade immediately after one use and is harmful to the human body to reuse. You have to discard it. So even if I want to conserve, it was not MADE for that purpose. The ’disposable culture’ is here! The consequences? Who knows? Ever wonder what happens to our internet waste? Is there such a thing as ‘collective consciousness waste’? What if we are now polluting our ‘SPACE-TIME CONSCIOUSNESS’ itself? Disposable kids (maybe we should start cloning our kids), disposable waste, disposable time …are their consequences? I feel somewhere down the line there is going to be a RECKONING DAY…and we are not going to fare too well! What do you think? Credited: Picture taken from the internet, public domain.