The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer is an article that seeks to expose a huge problem among people today. Ritzer explains the need people have demonstrated to achieve their goals as quickly and easily as possible. This may not sound bad, what's wrong with people achieving their goals quickly? The problem is that people's goals have changed significantly over the past few centuries. For many, survival is not a struggle, but a God-given right granted to fortunate members of society. For these people, the goal that used to be finding food, rather than not starving, is now about finding food that takes less than a few minutes to prepare. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay But this article wasn't just a rebuke of McDonalds. It’s a commentary on society. People have become so lazy that they will do anything to make their lives easier. The cashiers don't even count the money anymore. There's a machine for that. There are machines that limit the amount of liquid produced by a soda fountain. Many technologies are replacing human action. As Ritzer explains, this destroys the variety and unique qualities of many tasks. The self-satisfaction of creating a useful tool for oneself disappears. Humanity is disappearing. For me, that’s what this article is about. This is not a McDonaldization of society, but a dehumanization of it. What I find funny is that Ritzer refers to this need for quick fixes as streamlining. While it seems natural that finding the quickest and most effective solution is rational, the methods used in society are far from rational. We become zombies. Soon we will live in a world full of technologies built by humans and we will no longer know how to make them work. We may not even know how it got there. With the trend seemingly spreading across America, and even the rest of the world in many places, it's not hard to believe that we could be pawns in a mechanical society. We are already starting to work as a mechanical unit.