FW: VLVL2 (1) "More Is Less"�

[Dave Monroe]

Well, keep in mind, 'Wraith, I don't start these
little slapfights (and I'm certainly not about to
start one with you), but, in the meantime, the
invocation of Franklin here reminds me, Time might
well be something to pay attention to here, in re:
work vs. sloth.  But allow me to suggest that labor
isn't necessarily equal to work here ...

--- Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Given the little self-parody in the opening of
> the "Sloth" essay- with it's denial of guilt and
> rationalization of writer's sloth, not to mention
> the aspersions cast in the direction of the proto-
> typical workaholic, Ben Franklin, I can't help but
> believe that TRP is poking fun at himself, as well
> as, my man/dog, Zoyd.
> 
> I may as well warn yuz all early that I'm not buying
> any of what I'm sure some of yuz are loadin' up for,
> namely, that VL is somehow goin' to enoble the Labor
> Movement- you know, the foax that brought us the
> weekend- at the expense of the free-loadin' sixties
> revolutinaries ....

... and time is indeed of the essence.  Keep in mind,
that Labor Mvmt. and its forty-hour week, its weekend,
its overtime pay, et al., it's about time, the uses
and abuses thereof, and not work, not per se.  That
30s/60s thing is decidedly In there, but the first
step, at least, beyond simple (or not so simple)
identification, isn't so much to worry about
valorization as to simply (or not so simply ...)
compare 'n' contrast.  GR was in no small way about
failures of 60s radicalism, albeit not necessarily
about THE failure of it.  Perhaps the same thing here?
 Let me know ... 

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