cansee restaurants can be just as inefficient as cooking at home. McDonaldshas condensed this inefficiency into one easy drive to the restaurant,through the drive-thru and back home within a time frame that youcould take a shower. Therefore eliminating quality time and a gooddecent meal at the table, where instead you are eating in the comfort ofyour car. Diets and weight loss books and other miscellaneousparaphernalia are just another example of McDonaldization in thenation. Even in weight loss everyone is trying to find the most efficientway to lose weight and eat better. For those on a diet you have variousproducts on the market varying from slim-fast that can be consumed inseconds to weight-watchers which is a constant tallying of points! Thenation is a perfect demonstration of a Gesellschaft through the constantchanging of products to make life go quickly, easily, and at a fasterpace. Through a Gesellschaft relationships are destroyed with theimpersonal relations that we interface everyday at fast-food restaurants. Instead of having your dinner on a silver platter you feel like you areeating on a conveyor belt platter with the assembly line rushing you outthe door. “The best that can be said about this experience is it isefficient and over quickly.”Through a Gemeinschaft and a Gesellschaft you face difficultieswith either lifestyle you choose, but as you can see a majority of ournation live in a Gesellschaft. “The human craving for new and diverseexperiences is being limited, if not progressively destroyed, by thenational and international spread of fast-food restaurants. The cravingfor diversity is being supplanted by the desire for uniformity andpredictability.” The problem of diversity is a problem with aGesellschaft while conformity is a fear with a Gemeinschaft. While aGesellschaft show’s the consequences of self-serving lifestyles,transience and rootlessness of this culture, and extrem...
