The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer is an article that tries to expose a huge problem among people today. Ritzer explains the need people have shown to achieve their goals as quickly and easily as possible. This may not seem like a bad thing, 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 afforded to fortunate members of society. For these people, the goal that once might have been finding food, so as not to starve, 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 Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay But this article wasn't just a rebuke of McDonald's. It's a commentary on society. People have now 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 dispensed from a soda dispenser. There are many technologies that are replacing human action. As Ritzer explains, this destroys variety and unique qualities in many tasks. The complacency of creating a useful tool is disappearing. Humanity is disappearing. For me, that's what this article is about. Not a McDonaldization of society, but its dehumanization. What I find funny is that Ritzer refers to this need for quick fixes as rationalization. While it seems natural that finding the quickest and most effective solution is rational, these methods used by people in society are anything but rational. We are becoming zombies. Soon we will live in a world full of technology built by humans and we won't know how to make it work. We may not even know how it got there in the first place. With the trend appearing to spread across America, and in many places around the world as well, it's not hard to believe that we might be pawns of a mechanical society. We are already starting to work as a mechanical unit.