How is experience concretely conditioned?
Unlike in the other phases, where the questions are more abstract and where our answers serve to fundamentally yet rather indirectly condition experience, the questions of the L-phase address the issues that most directly condition experience. These include the practical questions we most immediately face on a day-to-day basis, from what are we going to have for dinner tonight? to should I call my friend? to shall we pray? Yet even still, all L-phase questions are not necessarily those that we direclty ask on a day-to-day basis. Take questions about the best economic structure for a given society, for example. We mostly don't question the economic system we're engaged in, yet it in a very practical and very real sense conditions how we experience life. Questions about political structures is another example. Happily, in some parts of the world, those governed are free to ask such questions, and answers are given at the ballot box. But few of us do the hard work necessary to really ask in an informed, reponsible way (given the sheer complexity of the political issues we face in our complex world, perhaps). Regardless, all L-phase questions ask about the concrete issues that most immediately condition experience—the issues we can't help but care about.
