"The liberal concept..." in this new historical paradigmatic

 September 13, 2022

"The liberal concept that men will do"

Is - for this is a contentious proposition - is off-grid solar energy an abegnation of the social contract? It even exists in a contentious social position: a public and private melded space.

What is the consideration in return for this transgressive but not exclusionary perhaps act? If you make your own energy, etc., what promise do you take and what do you give, what is the entire plane of social contractivity that exists at least to some degree for you in that?

A burden and an honor, and therefore the correct way.

So many unanswered questions. Don't we owe the sum total of our understanding, of the answers possible or not, to all these unanswered questions: normative, declarative and never descending to the interrogative with truth. Progress in this form toward some ultimate perceived ideal, beckoning some problematic leap of faith, requires sacrifice that in a sense precludes its ultimate attainment for a predatory attainment.

-- To in a sense foreclose on the wasteland of the current moment of which this "ultimate" ideal is but a part. To sacrifice, in this case the very concept of not having problems with the attainment of a power-potentiality. The wonder being of an empty vessel, and not the assurance of abundance to come, but rather the assurance that when the particular abundance is found it will be added to the vessel; from an old disregarded entity of virtue ethics – derivated  - to an integral construction of new parameters for living. The centrality in this new system of morality to underpin and base this new technological paradigm on is the problematic of excess, not disbursive virtue. A new problemization of residuals.

The song that says:

"… I can't forget
Now I can lend him my ear or two, how to stack these residuals
The liberal concept that men'll do." 

-Those lyrics matter again, it is not foolishness.