The Flaws of Humanity 1: Instant Satisfaction

Thus we are brought to the first flaw of humanity. The need for instant gratification. It is due to this need that humans focus on petty, insubstantial issues that offer temporary yet instant satisfaction. It is why we love to gossip, go to movies, play video games. They offer short, yet completely instant sources of entertainment and gratification, and hence we spend our entire lives pursuing pointless satisfaction.

Instant gratification, like mentioned above, is not only entrenched in our everyday social lives, but also in the way we deal with worldwide issues. We see problems, and we invade. We don’t ever step back and look at the Big Picture; we don’t bother to realize that turning to war as the answer is just reverting back to the way we’ve always done things. We don’t realize that war is just a temporary and excruciatingly painful solution, and don’t realize that there are deeper problems we need to deal with. We don’t see that we need to dig up the root of the problem, instead of just bombarding the weed with weed killer every time we see it bloom.

The huge amount of violence in the middle east isn’t going to be solved with more violence. There are much deeper problems at work here, yet because of the humanistic need for instant gratification, we ignore taking time to look deeper and look for solutions and just invade.

One of the main problems in the middle east is, arguably, the disagreement of belief. We have many different peoples with many different backgrounds from many different cultures. Of course they are going to have different beliefs. Yet our solution to the clashing of these beliefs is to go in with rocket launchers and AK47s to shut up those who are making the noise. We don’t stop to consider that they are fighting for what they believe in, and ideas are intangible, thus indestructible. And no matter how many bombs we drop, you can’t kill an idea. But we don’t ignore our need for instant satisfaction long enough o realize this. We just make more bombs. The philosophy behind solving the world’s problems of today is “If something isn’t working, just do it harder.” Now, that’s perfectly fine if you want to temporarily stop the problem. But unless you address the core issue, you’re just wasting time, money, and lives.