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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5

234 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 23, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 234 pages OCR'd
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IP 100-17576 12 “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 “27 -
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