The ease of your fingertips
You’ve certainly felt it to your core: when the internet is down or even just slow, we run amuck as if we’re in the middle of heart surgery and life depends on every second we spend without an online connection to the rest of the world.
Have you witnessed this (unjustified) agitation?
It’s the same one when we’re standing in line somewhere, either in a queue or even in a traffic jam.
We’re so impatient because we’re used to everything being at our fingertips.
When the internet is slow, we can’t wait two more seconds – it feels like hours. Regardless of what we’re told that in the ‘olden days’ the router hummed to connect and it would take a few minutes, while to make it worse you had to choose between the internet or the phone. We don’t care how it was done in the elder years. We have the simplicity and ease now and we don’t understand why we cannot make full use of it.
Perhaps that is why we are so easily distracted by anything and everything. We have the attention span of… hmm what is it really? Does anything have a lower attention span than modern man? Maybe only Dori and that’s because she so quickly forgets.
Patience may be a virtue, but in our times it’s a lesser one. Unfortunately, it runs with the entire essence of our social existence: everything has to happen fast, often in a hurry, with a focus on speed rather than on quality or content or even validity and truth. We’ve changed the way we view the world by altering the way we behave in it. And that is not always to our advantage or even well-being.