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Star Member MineralMan (142,251 posts)"I Want It Now!" - Veruca SaltWe all want what we want, and we want what we want immediately, it seems. Our culture and our business environment are all geared to that philosophy.Want a big screen TV? You can get one delivered today, from local chain retail stores or from Amazon. Just enter your credit card number and a truck will arrive at your door the same day in most places.Are you feeling peckish? Just drive to a nearby corner and you'll find a place you can get some food to eat. You can just drive in speak into a box, and someone will hand it to you out of a little window in an instant.Instant gratification. We count on it. We demand it. We get it, but at a cost.So, we're impatient when everything doesn't work that way. Take justice, for example. We all know that the former President is a vicious crook, and we want him and his cronies to pay for their criminal actions. We don't want to wait, either, for the wheels of justice to turn. If the enforcers of the law don't deliver justice immediately, we criticize those enforcers. We stop believing that they will, in the end, bring the man to justice. We get angry because it's a complicated thing to convict criminals. It takes time. A lot of time. We are not satisfied. We are frustrated. We lose confidence. We demand instant Karma and, when we don't get it we attack those who are trying to deliver it.We want Peace in Ukraine. We want it immediately. Some of us are even willing to risk a global nuclear war to get that peace. We are so impatient that we think we would welcome annihilation, if it would end the suffering of the people of Ukraine. We're not satisfied with sanctions, like the ones implemented by our President, Joe Biden, and enhanced as recently as right freaking now. We demand action, despite the fact that there is no immediate action that will guarantee a quick, non-violent end to an attack by Russia on Ukraine. We get angry at the very people who are working to restore peace to that part of the world. We are impatient. We are frustrated. We react with our emotions, rather than our reason.Why? Because we have been trained to expect instant gratification. We demand it. We take it for granted, because we can often get what we want immediately.Remember what happened to Veruca Salt? What I'm saying isn't going to be popular, I realize, but it's the reality. But, try to think things through and have some patience, if you can.https://youtu.be/Pqsy7V0wphIhttps://www.democraticunderground.com/100216469854
Matthew Dowd makes Ukraine situation ‘perfectly clear’ by comparing it to ‘Star Wars
