The Quick Fix Culture

[O-Train]

I don't know what it is about all the lazy f-ing people in the world. Even most of the people that work at something just want the easy way out. I mean why actually solve a problem when you can get the bandaid solution easier right? Why figure out what's causing your headache when you can just take a drug and make it go away. Need some more energy...take a drug. Too much energy now? Well here's another drug for that too. Trouble sleeping, want some more muscles, hate your shitty life? Don't solve the problems, don't bother getting at the root of the issue...take a drug.

I want it now doesn't mean SFA. You gotta work at something for it to mean anything. What's wrong with saying I ****ing worked hard at this. Worked my balls off and this is what I accomplished. I figured out what the problem was and I ****ing solved it on my own. ****ING PRIDE. Having pride in what you accomplish is a beautiful thing.

This isn't an anti-steroid rant so nobody get their balls in a twist. It's about doing something because it's difficult. Doing something because someone said you couldn't. Not being a lazy asshole that goes and gets their stomach stapled or takes the elevator when they live on the second floor.

When it all boils down to it, I don't lift weights to get bigger or stronger or look better. I do it because it makes me feel like I accomplished something. Something that was difficult, something worth doing. The most rewarding things in life will always be the times when you had the most trouble and really wanted to quit, but didn't.

[bigtavi8]

shit hurley couldnt have sed it better myself. your a deep guy. Its tru its not with anything in particular but everything we do in this culture. Money, sports, BB, supplements, dieting. reps for you and well said.

[#8]

Reading that got me so hyped up I had to take a melatonin and 5HTP to calm down.

KIDDING.

I like your style. I pretty much agree with you on everything you've shared with the board. Keep em coming.

* I have to spread it around more.....gay *

[PdH]

Good post Hurley. Having grown up in an era of much simpler values and ideals, I do agree with you. That said, I think we need look no further than corporate media to find a reasonable explanation for much of the current instantaneous gratification demonstrated by so many. The populous in wealthier capitalist countries is bombarded by media and they are mesmerized by it. They embrace and conform to such adverting slogans as 'Get it First', 'Buy it Now', etc. They are lured by the promise of satisfaction and contentment through artificial means. A quest to fill the void inside with shiny blinking objects and tummy tucks. The feeling of excitement and satisfaction is short-lived however, so they desperately seek another plastic disposable fix from Future Shop. They are so blinded by the directed compulsion to consume that the building of depth and character fall to the wayside.

It's actually quite insidious, this media driven madness. Corporate media conglomerates simply utilize their product to generate profits for stockholders, as most businesses do, but the reach of their sales strategies encompasses an entire population, and influences the behaviour of that population. If it didn't influence us, there wouldn't be any advertising, which is essentially the driving force of capitalism. I think Noam Chomsky described it most succinctly: "Media is to democracy, what violence is to totalitarianism".

P.S. No I'm not a capitalist hating communist, it's simply an objective analysis.

[slick rick]

When it all boils down to it, I don't lift weights to get bigger or stronger or look better. I do it because it makes me feel like I accomplished something. Something that was difficult, something worth doing. The most rewarding things in life will always be the times when you had the most trouble and really wanted to quit, but didn't.

Good post Hurley.. I agree dude, it's just evolution. It's nothing new, people didn't want to ride horse and buggy so they bought a car. Alot of what you say is just plain laziness though for sure.

And really you do lift weights to be bigger, stronger and look better, feel better mentally amonst many other reasons. These are the things that are results of working out and part of the reason you feel like you have accomplished something.

[69challenger]

The most rewarding things in life will always be the times when you had the most trouble and really wanted to quit, but didn't.

Funny, I remember my father telling me this about 20 years ago. Took a long time for me to realiza just how true it was...

[Big D]

Amen , great post hurley

[kloan]

Instant gratification is an addiction.

[deleteduser0002]

Instant gratification is an addiction.

Absolutely is...and a very dangerous one at that.

[Mad-Bull]

Awesome post bro, reminds me of when you see the kids who've only had hair on there dick a few years, and decide they want to put on some muscle. You hear them talking to there friends in the gym about what there on, meanwhile there 160lbs and only work arms and chest. The only thing they know about diet is how to spell it, god those kids make my blood boil...