A Gratification Society: Is It Driving Us to Extinction?

I am starting to write an editorial for my monthly newsletter, FutureShapers Monthly, in which I focus on the shift of paradigms society must experience to create a sustainable future. One of the  behaviors that will be changing when this paradigm shift occurs will likely be a reduced adolsecent demand for everything right away. We have become an “on demand society” and fully expect everything to be available to us now, right now! And the market accommodates this demand as things continue to move faster and faster to keep up with this mass obsession with “I want it now.”

Is this drive to gratification on demand healthy for us? Or is it serving as a palliative for our over-stimulated psyches leading us to becoming so obsessive about accumulating material stuff and experiences?

If there is any chance for us to transform to a sustainable society we must curb our propensity to obsessively consume. We will need to let go of this insatiable albeit adolescent desire for instant gratification.

As we accept greater responsibility for our reality, our world, we will pass through passages of emotional and spiritual maturity that we’ve all known only on a physical level. This is the transformation that awaits us as a species. This is the passageway to a new way of living and working together.

I welcome your thoughts.