Today's dicussion looking over the past year (2017) is made somewhat humorless by failing to mention how our principled thought and action occurs within a bounded historical conditon. Suppose "modernity" is marked by the emergence of consensus arbitration in public opinion and the way that affects establsihed round practices unsuited to square uses. Ceteris paribus is law as long as intentions shape themselves to their governance. Even the crown headed God elect fail the coherence test in the shifting perameters of mindless attrition, i.e., temporal composting.

As long as the political elect are made ephemeral by a fixed date to possible dismissal and crowd cowing cannot shout down the first person voice, autonomous persons can moral individuate in place by principled enagagment, even if that happens in the figurative or actual underground, or requires time-out in the desert.

我认为集体生活是由一些特定的人组成的。如果是这样的话，传达共识辩论的大量混合意见就会使扶悬崖的手动起来，这更多地取决于悬崖表面的状态，而不是“攀登的意愿”——如果这个比喻令人毛骨悚然，那是我的错。当Wittgesntein谈到“生命的形式”时，我认为这是显而易见的，生命是锚定在物质上的，持续的个性化是人在坚硬边缘的世界中“发挥作用”的方式，直到死亡的物质不再被移动者移动。