Instant gratification and No commitment

Instant gratification and No commitment

People today are looking for instant gratification without considering others or the consequences. They are reluctant or lacking any intention of making a commitment and abiding by that commitment.

Politicians are known for saying the right things at the right time with no real intentions of believing in what they say or the desire to adhere to their promises. It is all for show in front of the Media and the public. Everything has to do with what is politically correct, whether it is the right thing to do or not. Money, economic benefits, fame and power are the controlling interest. The honest concern for the public is covered up with make believe and illusion of responding to public outcry.

Many of the causes are; Peer pressure, living up to the joneses and today’s fast moving society and technology.

The technology we grew up with could easily have cultivated a "now or never" attitude, a predilection for instant gratification that no previous generation had to encounter.

It is time to look beyond self interest, fame and glory. It is time for a conviction to do what is right and ethical for the public interest with no hidden agenda. It is time to regain the trust of the public with honesty, integrity and true intentions and deeds for the public benefit.

Do not look for the quick fix, the best and lasting fix takes strong resolve, hard work, determination and perseverance to accomplish the ultimate goal on behalf of all humanity.

Yehuda Draiman

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You have young people who want instant gratification, and do not have the patience and sacrifice to help achieve those goals.

We won't experience instant gratification. We must sow before we reap; we must invest before we get a return. In other words, we must lose before we gain; we must give up time before we can experience intimacy with anyone.

In a culture where "instant gratification" and "what is in it for me" ... The word you are searching for in that definition is commitment.

The American society and its astonishing attainments have been built mainly upon the burning desires of individuals to achieve their dreams and the freedoms afforded by the society to realize those dreams. The immigrants who reached the shores of America with dreams to labor and live well were not fettered with negative ideologies or concepts but were egged on by a forceful “can-do culture”. To the entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams no river was deep enough, no mountain high enough to thwart their march in pursuit of their dreams.
By any standard, the landing of man on the moon, the Internet, the satellite communication and a host of other technological advances are no less than miracles of the modern age with America contributing the most to these miracles.
While the innovations are all laudable, as they have made life easier and longer, they have also wrought certain malevolent changes. The sequence of desire-effort-patience-fulfillment has been overtaken by a culture of instant gratification that has dropped the element of patience from the natural process, giving rise to distortions, harmful side effects and a set of debatable values.
The most widely mentioned is the change in family values. The discovery of the contraceptive pill in mid-sixties has caused a virtual revolution in gender relations. The premium on virginity and the postponement of sexual intimacy till after wedlock has yielded to instant gratification and the acceptance of sexual experiences as a normal feature in a subsequent commitment to marriage. Even the aura of romance attached to love has taken a back seat. The concepts of family, fidelity and stability in marriage have all changed. They have been sacrificed at the alter of instant gratification.
A new scale of values has taken over. It includes: living together, live-in boy or girl friend, single mother, single father, gay couples, instant availability of porno material on Internet, and so on.
Technology has sparked a very fast tempo of life. Every thing and every one seems to be on the run. Time has shrunk despite an increase in life expectancy. This has led to fast food chains, telephonic orders, Internet shopping, Fed-Ex and UPS services of overnight deliveries, buy-now-pay-later schemes, the facility of returning a merchandise you decide not to keep, pay in easy installments and a host of similar schemes tempting customers to indulge in instant gratification.
The fast tempo of life may have afforded man new conveniences and the ability to accomplish a lot in half the time, but it has also brought in its wake new problems. Take the fast food chains, for instance. They serve such fattening items that if you eat there regularly you can see yourself gaining weight at all the wrong places.
Statistics tell us that 61 per cent of all Americans are overweight, and obesity is now the major cause of death. Half a century back, fair, fat and forty were the ideals. A fat person was thought to be substantial and well to do. Now only the poor and the careless are fat. The wealthy and successful regularly jog and work out to keep sinewy and slim. If you are 30 pounds overweight, you are middle class; if more, then you are poor. It shows that the person lacks self-control. Etiquette demands all rich persons, particularly women, be slim.
The culture of instant gratification is rooted in the abundance created by technological capitalism. The system stands on the questionable premise that both human beings and nature are there to be exploited, no matter what the cost. Nature is being ransacked. Jobs have been transferred to the cheap labor markets of India and China to widen the margin of profit. Economic capital, particularly of the corporate sector, has been no doubt rising, but the moral capital of the people at large is depleting. That is a social consequence of the new economy.
Instant gratification has been made possible by the easy access to credit. The facility (or virus) of credit card is found in the pocket books of all. Interest rates on these go as high as 25%. Yet, it affords the holder the temptation of getting his/her desires fulfilled without wait. It all starts with a small debt; but a small debt is like a small pregnancy, it keeps growing. Let me add quickly that I do regard credit as inevitable for economic activities such as trade, commerce and investment. What I am talking about here is the trap of credit card debts that are largely acquired for instant gratification. The high rates of interest charged on them may be regarded as usury.
In America, the lowest twenty percent of the people remain stuck in that category because they are unable to reconcile their net income with their gross habits. They can’t resist temptation. An income for them is what they can’t live without or within. Many among them live so far beyond their income that they may be living apart. Their credit cards land them eventually in bankruptcy courts.