SHORTCUT CULTURE

A behavior that involves a set of attitudes toward life and other individuals. Underlying this pattern, there is a pernicious resistance to follow the rules; a rush to finish stages; deferring to start, continue or complete a specific task; a tendency to finish products by any means; and a disregard for the pursuit of perfection.

In student life, shortcut culture involves getting good grades by cheating on exams, copying or plagiarizing writings and withholding credit to other sources in thesis works.

In the professional and business world, shortcuts are used to climb the corporate ladder by shaking the competition with unfair and primitive warfare maneuvers; delivering unfinished products devoid of quality control.  The embrace of corruption and collusion with criminal elements and all kinds of malfeasance to accumulate wealth at the fastest rate possible, attached to the principle: "the higher the risk, the higher the return." All this process is built within the frame of disrespect for the consequences.

As a pedestrian or a driver, ignore the footbridges, zebra crossings, sidewalks and the most elementary precautions to avoid being running over. Disrespect of drivers for queues, parking sites and the rules of use of overpasses and tunnels, the weight capacity of bridges, continuous yellow lines, traffic lights and any signs that condition rational behavior.

Shortcut culture is the practice of prioritizing the immediate for the permanent; the insecure for the guaranteed; the illogic for intelligent; anguish for tranquility; and death for life. That, in the end, with patience, can infallibly move the distance between two points and promote satisfactory goals.