Microwave Society

You always hear people refer to my generation as the Microwave generation, we want everything right here and right now. No patience. I don't think that's necessarily true, I think that it extends beyond my generation and infects the society as a whole. 

I got to thinking of this today when I was riding the bus home, my bus driver was in a real fowl mood fussing at passengers for running to the bus instead of waiting another 15 minutes in the rain for the next one. Blowing his horn at cars in front of him for patiently waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street. He's sitting in a warm bus getting paid to drive around and can't spare a moment of his time to allow a students to cross the street in the pouring rain and cold temperatures.

We have become so self absorbed that we think the universe revolves around our schedules. We put others in danger by reckless driving because we didn't leave enough time to get to work. We tap our foot at waiters who don't get our food out in the first ten minutes while we chose not to spend time cooking for our families. We see our time as being beyond valuable while other people are simply tools to achieve our means or barriers that are in our way.

When did we become so self absorbed, and how do we fix it?

More later...