Window into the society we are creating (cannot get a zipcar reservation without lots of problems)

submitted by Richard_Parker from self.debatealtright

So as some here may recall, I live in the NYC area. Actually lower end of AOC's district. Looking to escape.

Anyway, for several years instead of maintaing a car my lady and I use zipcar. She goes to long island every few weeks to do shopping, and before Covid to visit her family. Sometimes she goes alone but a lot of time I go with her to get some errands done, things that are easier done shopping in person rather than online.

Yesterday the car she reserved was not available, because the "people" who had it before are such fuckups they ran out of gas before they could get it back to the parking lot (or another gas station). The car we were given as a replacement wreaked of pot. So I am so surrounded by such cretins we cannot even car-share without significant difficulties because these idiots cannot do something as simple as make sure a car has enough gas to run or refrain from toking up in a car that does not belong to them and is by definition a shared car in the zipcar network.

I thought it was a nice little window of the society we are creating. For me--and this is why I thought it would be of interest to readers here--it just comes to show that libertarianism is a crock. What other people do, how and what they are affects everyone else.

Unless there is a drastic about turn, and that opportunity may be lost if electors go through with the obvious election fraud, it is only going to get worse. A more realistic, less absurd and silly bit of Idiocracy, mixed in with the omnipresent surveillance envisioned in 1984 (with the sugar coating from idiot phones and other diversions) coupled with gender bending sexual profligacy and every other vice imaginable, from ubiquity of pot and other drugs, to porn and hyper-promiscuity and sexual deviancy, to gambling as mainstream parts of every day life.

Non-aggression principle, right? If people want to fritter away their money on draft kings or pot, or if people want to subsist on burgers and fries and other shit foods, that is their business, right? Wrong.

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[–]Jacinda 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I can relate. I have often thought about writing a post about the general decline in civility (and intelligence) that I experience daily.

According to Steve Sailer (who thinks about these things a lot) it seems, thanks to immigration and differential breeding, people in the West are gradually going to become more stupid.

Unz:

Sailer — Is America Heading into Idiocracy?

[A] three or four point decline would have broad, noticeable impacts. Call it Idiocracy Lite. As the population gets dumberer, entertainment will become even dopier than it is now. The population is likely to get surlier, less interested in higher culture. And the competence of the workforce will drop.

The irony is that white liberal elitists, who see themselves as better than the rest of America because (A) they loudly proclaim their belief in equality; and (B) they have above average IQs, are particularly likely to find disagreeable the new America that they have helped midwife through their support for open borders. [Cont...]

Add in different cultural proclivities for thoughtfulness and consideration — and realize that many immigrants come from countries where such virtues are absent — and our future looks dim.

I really wish the government was more forthright in discussing it as a problem. I would love to live in a country where the leaders wanted the best for their people rather than simply serving the money nexus which is what we have at the moment.

I also appreciate your observation of the importance of society. I think the best we can hope for now is some sort of voluntary association of some kind.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

In many countries forming a queue is advanced technology.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This stuff is real basic. Being able to manage a car--in an urban area--so that you do not ru out of gas, or not stinking up a rental that other people use. Baseline, bare minimum levels of being able to function, or having very minimum levels of courtesy for others. With the exception of people who use pot very rarely (breakup, lost job, some other stressor), those that tent to use do so heavily, rely in it, and they tend to give zero fucks about how their usage impacts people.

[–]Jacinda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

those that tent to use do so heavily, rely in it, and they tend to give zero fucks about how their usage impacts people.

Lots of wake-and-bake types where I live. I don't think they even realize how badly it effects them.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The legalization and normalization of pot is going to unleash the law of unintended consequences, much like the rise if single motherhood and the sexual revolution before it. My mother, whom I had to leave when I was 14, was a lot smoker and attribute a lot of the abuse to thst, as well as being baby boomer, an alcoholic and a slut. My lady has a girlfriend who is an everyday user. They are growing a pot. The friend smokes every day,eats like an animal, an exhibits other stereotypical behaviors.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You should write the post, its always fun to read and look at the state of clown-world.

[–]Jacinda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe we should have one day a week where we post complaints.

Saidit badly needs to get its flairs up and running.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I've recently moved out of the city and I'm trying to design my life, friends and even family around avoiding the city as much as possible. The rural areas are a bulwark against this type of control by access to corporate services. I've noticed that the businesses in rural areas are forced to cater to the mindsets and dispositions of rural folk as well. The only thing I use the city for at this point is a fat paycheck and I'd like to eventually get into a self sustaining off grid situation in the future. I know this isn't the solution for everyone but the more high trust white people that do this we will have a better likelihood of creating an alternative economy and even alternative industries. (and genuine resistance if needed)

The only reason zipcar can play so many games is that there are simply too many people who don't question the corporation and challenge it. We absolutely need to get consumers to challenge these things in significant ways. (And by 'significant' I mean radical changes to lifestyle to avoid feeding the fortune 500 beast).

[–]Jacinda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've recently moved out of the city and I'm trying to design my life, friends and even family around avoiding the city as much as possible.

Congratulations. I'm attempting to do the same thing myself. The place I am living gets uglier by the day.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I do not seea problem with zipcar as a concept. How would it be a bad thing in a homogenous metropolis? The point is that this sort of conduct is so prevalent. Deficiencies in really basic stuff affects other areas as well.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not against zipcar. I'm against oligarch that use their companies to manipulate behavior and work together to push an agenda. For example I'm sure zipcar is going to get on board with some type of vaccine check before riding. If they don't get on board with vaccine checks they will be pressured by the corporate community that is tied into central banking power. I want companies that have the ability to buck the oligarch agenda. I see very few of them. Companies that service rural areas are often smaller, more independently owned and I'm hoping we can garner larger and larger customer bases for companies willing to say fuck you to oligarch population manipulation plans.