After years of credulous apologism for health supremacism, that so many self-identified leftists and leftish geekdom-at-large are prepared to die on the hill of a computer game… feels like we've somehow come full circle.

Hard not to see this as a legacy of GamerGate. Yet is also deeply entrenched in #perquisitive #classposture that undergirds franchise-fandom culture, itself an institution of superspreader #normalcy.

There comes a time for #mourning self-identification with problematic faves.

@elana @decorummanager Yes, "treats" would seem to be close parallel to the perks of perk-seeking: silhouette of #perquisitive #classposture as cast upon #conveyancée class posture.

#FrosteanBargain situates perk-seeking in relation to rent-seeking—as distinct from profit-seeking—as long-term vestment of #EgoValue (compare use value, exchange value) in autobiography accounting Robert Frost satirized.

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109494303769075415

Less about the treats than upholding #compliancism promise of treats.

@elana Relevance of all this to pandemic is #classposture as answer to vernacular numismatic class theory; in particular, #perquisitive class posture, defined by its #EgoValue relation to #FrosteanBargain: the social contract that underwrites—thus fetters to—normalcy as promise of righteous entitlements (including restaurant dining and maskless air travel) for a lifetime of "right" choices.

Among those choices, #KayfabePanto: electoralist boosterism as morality play.

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@TiberiusReigns @blkchimera @trixter #RentierSociety, the American mode, is contrary to any rising tide.

#Perquisitive #classposture is all about the #FrosteanBargain. The righteous entitlements under that social contract are to have perks, to have what others have not.

No amount of proof does anything but activate #compliancism: "I worked hard to get where I am now, so why should they get anything without working just as hard?"

The Left's glorification of work and the worker feeds into this.

@blkchimera Hence the need for a #lumpentheory that begins its critique not with the glorification of work and the worker vis-à-vis capitalist exploitation, but instead with the #ableism, the eugenics, the #whiteness, that binds and holds fast those of #conveyancée, #disaccommodation and #conquistadas #classposture vis-à-vis colonial extraction.

Any move to elide or erase dispossession—as Marx did with his "passive decaying matter"—is #eugenicist at its core. Such cannot be our starting point.

Social contract of #perquisitive #classposture.

The term is a triple articulation: to seek perks is to cast choice as faux-liberatory Protean cantrip, an invocation of a misremembered mending–passing Robert.

The exchange is not the purchase of consumption. The exchange was the fetish, the #fetter, to future free to choose.

#EgoValue underwritten by moralist belief that good outcomes result from good choices.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20bargain&src=typed_query&f=top

#Classposture is body as done—by bounty, by discretion, by obligation, by #disability, by deprivation. How—not where—one stands in relation with society.

Where numismatic class theory categorizes by income or wealth, class posturalism looks to how resources bind and hold—floating compression, #tensegrity—and to recognizable silhouettes thus cast.

Folk code-switch: one can inhabit multiple postural classes in a day.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20class%20posture&src=typed_query&f=top

#introduction

Generativist—#anarchism-adjacent #criptheory—#lumpentheory of #RentierSociety & #tensegrity fetters of #classposture #kyriarchy, with interest turning increasingly to societal #grief and collective acts of #mourning.

#cripplepunk meets #solarpunk

#abolitionist by way of #STS, #NVC, Pirsig.

#neologism by way of #neurodivergence.

Team #emdash.

Old school #programmer from before dotcom bubble, now developing #AnnoPlot #dataviz library & weekly refresh of #ThisIsOurPolio charts.