Park Slope Hypocrisy Watch: Netflix

Netflix is a benevolent, internet-age lovecompany whose engineers spend all day playing foosball and volunteering in soup kitchens like the random hippie jerkoffs pictured above.

Well at least, that's what they WANT ya to think, because that's what gets yuppies to give up their money fastest these days.

The reality though, according to one local video-store owner, is that Netflix is so evil it makes Starbucks look like Gorilla Coffee.

That's right: a Brooklyn video store proprietor who wishes to remain nameless told me on Wednesday evening that the danger that Netflix presents to his livelihood cannot be overstated. He blames Netflix exclusively for cutting his business to 50% of what it was just 5 years ago.

Maybe they should try this slogan: Netflix: KILLING the little guy.

Jesus christ, the irony is delectable: Netflix is synonymous with the Park Slope progressive lifestyle!

Think about all those good looking macrobiotic vegans coming out of Second Helpings with their Noam Chomsky books and sustainable organic woolly hats. Progressive Citizens! ... Too bad it's all RUINED when they walk to the corner, open the mailbox, and sneak a Netflix CD out from between the pages of their Edward Said text. Damn; Never would have guessed she was a hypocrite.

Now for me personally, I love Netflix, but I also love Starbucks and Chicken Tenders from Burger King, so I'm not exactly hypocritical on this issue. Shit, I go to Union Market and buy 100$ worth of shit and then steal a candybar from the bodega on the way back home.

The question is: do YOU love Netflix? Cause like, I thought YOU were sustainable and organic and shit? So how can you justify using Netflix and helping to put your local mom n pop video store out of business? Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. 

What's wrong - don't feel like dealing with holier-than-thou judgemental store clerks, shleps to the video store, videos never being in stock, and a few late charges here and there?

Jesus, asshole, I thought you cared about this community.