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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@BobKerns Our #RentierSociety is one that has for generations allowed preventable deaths by influenza year after year, because despite what data surveillance was in place, it wasn't something we, as a society, were going to act upon.

That would have implicated the choices of those who didn't die of influenza, but merely participated in its spread, and we weren't gonna go there. The new situation only cast that #perquisitive silhouette in stark relief.

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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.

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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#RentierSociety, the American mode, holds fast by fetters of mutualistic relation: oligarch bounty motive & #perquisitive discretion motive.

Distinct from profit-seeking, both rent- and perk-seeking are libidinal. Desiring.

Rent-seeking ain't just landlords—all extractive relations. No use value is produced, no means of production entailed, by #RentBounty harvest. Rent-bounty is purely extractive. Purely colonial.

#lumpentheory

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