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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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i the way it goes. You can't do your thing. Flower children
aA get some thorns. Revolution.
"Tl saw an ad a couple days ago, did you see it?
What are the revolutionaries that United Artists planning
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my for '69. Jesus. They oughta be doing it. United Artists.
“tgs ooo Dedge-rebellion. It's tough to figure out what those words
}! mean, so we got a whole new set. We ain't serious. Business-
wo men are serious, movie producers are serious. Everybody's
serious but us. We ain't serious and never gonna be serious
again. You're not serious, man, You won't work. Work
work work work work. That‘s a four-letter word. A dirty
four-letter word. No, we never work. We play all day. We
fuck and smoke pot and play all day and love it. They hate
that. That's worse than not even taking a bath and doing
all the other things and guerilla fighting. But you're gonna
not work? And see, like, ah, Yippies are students; they're
members of the working class, but we're on strike. We partly
went on strike because we envision a free society. Free
society like the fathers laid it out, you know, America,
land of the free. Oh, my old man said at an early age, said
free means you don't pay. When can I go to the supermarket
and buy what I want with my gocd locks? That's what
Ginsberg said. Beautiful cat. That's the program for the
Yuture, everything free. Well, how we gonna do it. Well,
you like, I don't know how it is with wheat out here, but
i, Ci Cara oan
a re
he lets
——e like with corn, about ten years ago it took 480 man hours to
process an acre of corn, Today it takes 48; in five years
ree it'll take four, and in ten years it will take four minutes,
We'll have corn, we'll have popcorn, we'll have everything;
caramel corn, any kind you want, free. Why not?
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ne ‘We put out a booklet called, "Fuck the System,"
bo in New York. Fifteen thousand free copies. Thirty-two
pages, right there, everything, how to get it free. Free
credit cards, calis, how to do it, free laundromats, how to
work that thing on the vending machines, how to get on the
subway free, where to get free fish, free food, free drugs,
free abortions, everything, right there. Free. We have a
free store down there. We give out things free. You just
keep bringing it down. We just keep passing it ovt, free.
Who's in charge? You're in charge. Nobody's gotta be in
charge. It's all free. I know, but work's a heavy trip
cause, well, I guess it started with like way back. The
time of the Roman EBupire. There was this guy, Christ, this
groovy hippie, long hair, beatnik, out there doing his
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