Labor rally 9/5
From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
To: s-acc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [s-acc] n-word
Date: Sat 09/06/08 10:04 AM
Hi
The outcome of accommodating "behavior management" is to "live with the brainwash."
On Tues. I attended a County MHSA work group meeting regarding the standing issue of whether "consumers and family members" should be 51% of the leadership, and .. how to achieve that. This specific meeting was for "definitions."
I wore a name tag type badge that said, "N-Word." I cited Phil Cushman's article on
Why the Self is Empty where he explains how historically the term "consumer" was adopted and why it is an epiphenomenal choice, a kind of fashion from a certain historical dynamic (roughly, the 'yuppie' phenomenon).I sat next to the head of local NAMI, former Chair of the San Jose State math department, for which I once worked. [!] He privately didn't like the term, either.
We have lots of arguments hereabouts regarding "identity," but to have the matter of "self" written off, is too much.
And I think the politics of our times, is that that old historical choice and the question of our "creative maladjustment" is now .. "on the table."
Andrew