The World Economic Forum’s Ida Auken wants to correct your primitive lifestyle:

You don’t even need to know the neighbour to get into his car… It’s much more fun to share.

Embrace the upgrade, you filthy savages:

Because having neighbours and strangers, people you don’t know, taking your car, apparently at random, would be terribly progressive and super-convenient, and “fun,” and “not annoying.”

More on Ms Auken’s vision of tomorrow can be found here:

I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. 

All these things, these beastly capitalist products, would be “free.”

And not yours.

Update, via the comments:

If the above sounds like an evasive, rather coy way of saying, “Everything will belong to the state,” or, “Surrender all territory,” then hold that thought.

Update 2:

In the comments, Brother John quips, rather pithily,

Anybody ever wash a rented car? No? 

Indeed. We might also pause to consider the endless glamour of so-called “social” housing projects, where decidedly anti-social behaviour is not exactly uncommon, or public transport, or any number of other areas in which responsibility is dispersed and nebulous. Take away the territorial aspect, the ownership – the concept that Ms Auken finds so bothersome and passé – and things are generally much more likely to tend towards degradation.

Sometimes quite rapidly and to an eye-widening extent.

The human urge to have some territory over which other people – and the state – do not have total dominion is not a trivial thing.

Or, as Mr Muldoon puts it,

“Sorry about your wife going into labour, I needed some cigarettes. By the way, you need some new tyres.”

But hey, progress.




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