Autohagiographic politics of #FrosteanBargain are perfectly situated for rapid expansion of ever more fascist lifeways.
To be of #perquisitive #classposture is to value oneself—redeem oneself as worthy—on accrued privilege retrospectively attributed to past choices.
Present moment will be all the more rife with choices. Choices that will be all about retaining one's privilege through appeasement and compliance-in-advance. Choices that will be held to make all the difference.
Until they don't.
Per last RT:
#Disaccommodation #classposture is never a high-profile issue. That there's an expansion of the ranks of disaccommodation classposture is merely that, a redistribution of dispossession.
To be of disaccommodation classposture is to be object lesson of who not to be under social contract that is #FrosteanBargain.
It is the lesson to those of #perquisitive classposture that their autohagiography is valid, thus validating. The rewards ascribed to compliance.
It is the lesson to those of #conveyanceé classposture that dis-accommodation, non-accommodation, to be without accommodation, to be nuisance to those of #perquisitive classposture and a mere fable to those of oligarch classposture, is only a hairs-breadth away, the price of non-compliance.
One in five globally living with LongCovid is just more dispossession underwriting health supremacist privilege.
Is not a high-profile issue for the very reason that Stafford Beer told us:
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Sitting with "admissiveness" as antithesis of "denialism"
This interminable extension, this intractable autobiography (#FrosteanBargain), is "skin in the game" of #perquisitive #classposture:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112752932498940839
Is why VBNMW cannot live in successions of this present—every now being shut out from their experience—condemned to re-inscribe elections of 2016/2020 onto today.
Is why covid-reckless can't "live with" caution—instead re-inscribing a 2019 as yet unmourned.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Unlike those of #disaccommodation #classposture, those of #perquisitive classposture have an estate in #RentierSociety. They have power alongside the #KayfabePanto, those of oligarch class posture, the consensus media, and #FifthEstate. They exercise that power to defend their vested #EgoValue. More than their ecological footprint, that is their skin in the game. Hence only turn up when sacred righteousness of choice, esp. reified choice, is exposed. 3/3
It's not that there is an illusion of choice. It's that there is an illusion about choice: promise made by and for choice.
The illusion that choice makes us who we are. The illusion that choice makes all the difference. This is the #FrosteanBargain.
A mirage of crossings, all turns and no road.
Yet life happens in the trudging along, in the making do, moving along those legs of track where there is no switch to pull, only more bodies. No "choice" on offer.
What we do then… is the difference.
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.
In naming the #FrosteanBargain, we name a fetter of autobiography:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112526334493689873
This is the fetter that binds us to #GriefTaboo:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112696330088801909
In #RentierSociety, my stories center me, in such a way as to justify my #perquisition, even especially as others are dispossessed…
While your stories are about you, such that to hear your stories is to take something away from me. Whiteness:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112365295385733995
This is what makes commiserative storytelling so threatening.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] There's a reason #lumpentheory speaks of the #FrosteanBargain: a reference to Faust, yes, but also to Robert Frost & to Proteus. This isn't the blues musician at the crossroads. Not a one-time deal made at a switch (*ahem*) in the road. Is lifelong commitment. A social contract signed onto in childhood, that must be defended thereafter—through revisionist autobiography—lest one admit they paid full freight & shipping for that bridge in Brooklyn.
Star Trek: Discovery has established itself as my favorite in franchise.
What's more, the more am watching (just started s4), the more obvious why was so unpopular.
Is very much a show about self-doubt, grief, and adapting to uncertainty.
Things wholly against the grain of #perquisitve #classposture and #FrosteanBargain, which is to say, very much rejecting standards of whiteness and virtuous detachment.
Discovery breaks from techne of post-scarcity utopianism, to give us a balance of mêtis.
Which is to say, such "incompetence" is always already political.
This is what it means to speak of #FrosteanBargain as fetter of autobiography.
The person who can't put a mask on correctly to save their life or anyone else's, but will play at doing so if asked, is the audience friend, well-meaning protagonist on stage, who can get by with a shrug, knowing the audience will yell all the louder, as that's in the script too.
They know they're the hero in this story: the social contract says so.
The casting of "interaction" as "ingestion" is pure perquisition.
Consumption as participation.
The "all the world has to offer" buffet that is a colonialist's appraisal of all they survey.
This is the impulse we speak of in naming #perquisitive #classposture: the promise that all one encounters offers itself up to be taken, it being only for signatories of the #FrosteanBargain to choose what perks they would take for themselves.
If it is there, it is there to be consumed, to be ingested.
"They can't not be here. We all have to work. It's what we do. We work, and then we play."
sport of sacred spherical cows
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.