To speak of the work that would be collective acts of #mourning is to speak, in no small part, of the work of grieving such promises under #FrosteanBargain, thus grieving choices made in compliance with its terms.

It is to speak of mourning all those past futures unredeemed, that fetter one's present and all our futures to a past that can never to reclaimed.

It is to speak of mourning who we thought we were and were worthy to be, so to accept ourselves as who we might & may become.

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.

Critique intended by invocation of "individualism" is a consequentialist one: that subjects make choices in their own present interest without regard to potential future impacts on others.

This is wholly different termporality from that of #FrosteanBargain, whereunder only a life history of past choices are consequentially vested toward redemption—of and through—entitlements of past futures promised.

Perquisition is not lack of regard, but rather a scrupulous attention to contract.

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.

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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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.

@beadsland @TheBird @AnthonyJK #FrosteanBargain.

"What we've been telling them for the last x amount of years doesn't overcome a classification of lumpen as déclassé.

Spaghetti Western moralism is same as for liberals: Leftists self-caricature likewise as white-hat saviors whose choices are good by plot armor.

Mix in some "Better Living… Through Pharmacy", and it's Silent Spring all over again."

These parts. Most of it I'm a little confused apologies

@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.

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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@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.