Many experts have linked impatience to the current instant
gratification culture we live in.
Not exact matches
A push toward a scientific sovereignty
in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of
life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate
gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass
culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.
No New Age proponent of the
culture of death and instant
gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript
in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family
life.
Especially
in our instant -
gratification culture, it's hard to feel like a successful scientist or engineer
in grad school when your friends from college have already gotten great jobs, gotten married, bought houses, and started families — all while you're still
living with roommates and eating Ramen noodles.
After all, we
live in a
culture of accumulation and instant
gratification.
Ours is a
culture that has grown to expect instant
gratification and an all - access pass; we are constantly «plugged
in» and busy narrating our
lives by posting feedback and opinions online.
In the end, there won't be a silver bullet solution to developing more sustainable packaging practices, as modern packaging itself is based on a
culture of disposability, waste and a mentality of instant
gratification, with little thought to the
life cycle of all that stuff.