To live a life of vested redemption is to validate all choices per the terms of all choices preceding.

Indictment of present choices is thus an indictment of all past choices. It threatens an unwinding of the entire social contract—an unwinding of #EgoValue itself.

Consequentialist seeks, by leveling of term "individualist" to turn a subject's course, toward more worthy future.

For signatory to #FrosteanBargain, on balance, only futures to which past choices are vested may redeem.

#EgoValue under #FrosteanBargain amounts to consequential validity of vested choices toward promised futures: one looks to one's past choices for validation of one's present entitlements.

No appeal to the futures of others is legible here, except insofar as others are presumed vouchsafe on accounting of their own past choices.

Is not validity of present choices that we must critique, but rather validity of social contract that guarantees such choices: as redeemable and redemptive.

Tangle of "individualism", as analytical category, not merely that of ideological indictment where materialist critique is called for.

Ideal at issue—choice—is very currency of #EgoValue under #FrosteanBargain. Thus, "individualist" renders as slur, against subject's choices, thereby their character.

Such idealistic category is, itself, hopelessly bound up in that material fetter of social contract which must instead be object of critique—not choices, but promises that govern such.

@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.

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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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The other day, listened to video by a pair of critical theorists deconstructing the Dr. Strange movies.

Only today realized his origin story is a parable for the way #FrosteanBargain—amped up to 11 by praxis of specialized medical training—mitigates against precaution and care (in essence anticipating medical worker resistance to #WearAMask #BetterMasks); further how #EgoValue underwritten by social contract stands in way of wholehearted #mourning.

Where use-value refers to tangible features of commodities as produced, #EgoValue refers to intangible qualities vested in choices, in things done.

Otherwise inherent, the affective commitments that are ego-value are perverted under #FrosteanBargain: underwritten by dispossession of others.

Vested as promises of entitlement to have that which others have not. Redemption, both transactional and moral, under #compliancism.

#lumpentheory

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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

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@mrhockey1231 @fitterhappierAJ The #tensegrity fetters of #RentierSociety's toxic social contract are tightly bound.

Business leaders may be finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the consequences of collective heedlessness, but that realization is a far cry from society doing the collective work of #mourning #normalcy.

Too much #EgoValue vested over too many decades, to just let go of the #FrosteanBargain: the promise of righteously unbridled choice.