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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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“And this, and revolution, and that's brainwashing,
right? But like .. uh. . what about our educational
system. I me&fn when I was a young kid all I leaned
how to do was to sit in this funny weird position,
you know, like I could never do, And like make
these little ovals . . over and over and over and
over and over, and they said you unconscious yet and
I say yeah and they say you get an A in thia course.
Mathematics, like. Farmer Jones. Right? Brings
four apples into town, sells them for two cents each.
How much profit does he make? Profit. Brainwashing.
"Columbus. Columbus discovered America.
That's out of aight. Seeing as how there were people
living here. You kmow. And then you get into like
a whole thing about what discovery means in history
and it means that a white Weatern power conqguired a
nonwhite nonWeatern power. That's what discovery
means. You say Oh, Wow! That's pretty interesting.
Get a little stoned on that satuff, see. You start
to see what the educational system in this country
is geared for, turning out products. Products.
You're a commodity. Look at the guys that sit on the
Board of this University. Right. Serious people.
"Big ones. Old ones. The tyranny of the
gerontocracy. Old meeee- fos-e-e, And like. . uh.
And so once you recognize that you say, well.
General Motors ask those Chevrolets whether they
wanted all that Ge~ de-~- chrome. No. No. Did
they ask the Chevrolets? What right have Chevrolets
got to decide that. Right. I mean like these guys
ait up there in their little trustee's rooms and say
well what right do these students have? I mean we're
just going to put a little chrome out there. What
are they complaining about. They'll be in IBM. They
won't be very high up. Because this ain't Harvard, huh.
This ain't up. Too bad about that.
"There's a rung picked out though. Right.
Sales Executive. Salesman. I was a salesman. Made
15,000 a year. Figured out how I only had to work
four hours a week. Yeah. $18,000 home. Mowed the
lawn even. Fe-- mowing the lam. Crazy. Crazy practice.
But I had to keep busy. I had to work. John Calvin
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