Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.?

[Gordon Fitch]

JKSCHW at aol.com:
> In a message dated 6/20/00 9:18:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gcf at panix.com 
> writes:
> 
> << So which is it?  Complaints about the alienated conditions of
>  nulcear families and wage labor are "blah blah" and a rude
>  offense to honest workingmen, or a important subject for which
>  plain speaking and action might be appropriate?  What is it
>  you're going to do something about? >>
> 
> Don't be obtuse. Obviously it's a bad thing about modern life that our social 
> conditions put so much burden of childcare on the parents, typically the mom, 
> in the nuclear family; and that people have to work long hours and don't have 
> time to do other things they might like to do, including organize to change 
> those conditions. We work to chnage them within the limits placed on us by 
> the demands of work and family. 
> 
> What is insulting is to have some student twerps with lots of free time on 
> their hands and no kids to be responsible for tell you that the 
> organizational conditions that might make it possible for working parents to 
> participate in a movement to change things amounts to complicity in our own 
> oppression, reproduction of alienated conscioness, and other blah balh that 
> you seem to think passes for plain speaking. 
> 
> As an "honest workingman" (and my wife is an "honest workingwoman, I guess) 
> in this position myself, I don't pretend to speak for others. But you won't 
> get any action from me or my wife if your meetings take more than an hour and 
> a half, cause we gotta get up for work and take care of the kids. Howzat for 
> plain speaking? --jks

I think for starters you could lose the gratuitous insults
("student twerps") and drop the rank-pulling as well; I'm
probably much more working-class than thou.

After that I'd like it if you decided whether a radical analysis
of our lives is "blah blah" or has some kind of validity.  Or
is it postmodernistically both at once?  What do you believe
in, besides efficiency?