sport of sacred spherical cowsIncreasingly coming to think of #perqusitive #classposture in terms of #EgoValue investments expressed as dedication, devotion and fandom.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.It is that suspension of disbelief, all too easily elicited, that the first estate, #KayfabePanto, that opiate named electoralism, subsists upon.
That is their #RentBounty harvest: the #EgoValue that manifests, like zero-point energy, from the willing suspension of disbelief that accrues in the empty spaces of floating signification.
Our task is to be far less willing.
@callisto @violetmadder @chrisisgr8
Many new to public health advocacy have found themselves flung out of their respective tree-house, only to then cling to an adjoining branch, feeling betrayed by the ideological models—unfulfilled retrofuture promises all—wherein they have vested #EgoValue before now, even as they're yet not ready to do the work of climbing down out of the tree.
So, what's to be done? Well, build another tree-house, obviously.
Familiar ground. Well, familiar planks, anyway.
Estates of #RentierSociety do not want to "help house our homeless". Rather, #disaccommodation #classposture has been a national project since the close of the Civil War:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112698277241990971
To be without accommodation, to be unaccommodated, to be nuisance, is to underwrite #EgoValue of #perquisitive classposture, while keeping those of #conveyancée classposture in line.
To be disaccommodation classposture is to exist as living morality play for others—there but by grace of #compliancism.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (@[email protected])
@[email protected] The origin of homelessness (#disaccommodation #classposture) as a national project begins with two prongs: • the moral panic over traumatized Civil War veterans who failed to assimilate into marriage and family; AND • the social upheaval of newly freed folk, without access to property, in a society that had only years prior depended on their labor. The latter gave us vagrancy laws designed to force folk into sharecropping so to avoid being arrested for not having a place to live.
There is no room, under the #FrosteanBargain, for stories to be about life, as such.
Bromide that "our stories define us" takes on an especially pernicious coloring under #RentierSociety—the pronouns being singularized.
"In the end, the only thing we truly possess is our own story" says Noah Hawley. This is #EgoValue—to be guarded against any devaluation.
If a story is the story of others, if it is "our" story and not just "my" story, what possession then remains my own?
Stories as property.
Which is to say, #RentierSociety is not capitalist society, yet neither any sort of "neo"-feudalism.
Where estates of the realm checked power of king by checking the power of each the other…
Estates of rentier society check power of each #classposture which #tensegrity cultivates for #RentBounty harvest…
Very power of those so subjugated being the crop: #conveyancée, levied for exchange value; #disaccommodation, tilled for #EgoValue; #conquistadas, reproductive labor-power, itself, harnessed.
The bleed-over of this into everyday life is directly related to and enabled by power.
The co-worker gets away with a two-hour lunch to avoid helping, because they have a schmooze-afternoon relationship with the boss.
So too, those who will wear a mask "if asked", and then only do so badly, can do because they have vested #EgoValue sanction of their favorite chariot racing team.
They're the ones on stage, shielded from disbelief by the fourth wall. What's weaponized here is the script itself.
Ah, but is not a system for getting human beings into housing.
Is system for human beings—those of #perquisitive #classposture, who have housing—to satisfy their #EgoValue investment in housing being something one has to work for, while also reconciling fact that they don't want to be inconvenienced by those who are not in housing—that is, of #disaccommodation classposture.
Thus, program one can cite to to justify why unhoused folk are noncompliant for being visibly homeless.
@lilbatscholar @violetmadder @richpuchalsky @ciggysmokebringer
Yes, Berlant's work would seem to capture the sense of #EgoValue investment in the #FrosteanBargain.
Hope weaponized, always with a nagging sense that one is continuing to pay toward a bill of goods. This aptly describes #perquisitive #classposture in relation to unfulfilled retrofuture promises.
Not hope as discipline (Kaba) but hope as carrot & stick both, where each holds their own stick before them—never yet ready to… Let… Go.
Ah, but that's just it.
They're very concerned.
Intensely concerned.
But is a concern that goes much further back than 2000 or 1996.
#EgoValue is never about now. It's always about then. About the choices one has made throughout one's life and the story one tells about those being the right choices.
Not the wrong choices like those people who are suffering. Those are the people good people have to make good choices to make up for.