Everyday life is another word for civil society. The ground of all social order is the ordinary, day to day character of everyday life. People just live. As such, that everyday life has the character of being given and is therefore subject more to covenant than to contract. It's not like people have much of an alternative to the general outlines of their everyday life, no matter how well endowed they are about shaping their lives to their own specifications.
It is important for people to be able to live their lives as ordinary. To thrust people's lives into a constant maelstrom of extra-ordinariness is to do them a disservice. At bottom, ordinariness, everyday lifedness, i.e., civil society, is a pre-requisite to well-being and happiness, and no amount of welfare and wealth accumulation can substitute for a well-adjusted, ordinary life.
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