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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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thing, driving money changers from the temple. Wow, that's
terrible. That's heavy stuff. Slave rebellion. We'll
call it religion. OK. That's sneaky. That's really
—ioes good. Never tell them what you're doing. Religion, yea,
{ OK, so he got his thing, pigs nailed him up. They were
3H poured out in the catacombs, just like the hippies going
C out in the communes. Later I'll tell you how to fly in
an airplane free. Now to dig on. So then cane the
disciples, see, and they're feeling kinda guilty, they
said, hey, he was really serious, man, did you see what he
did; did you see the way he spent his Easter vacation? He
mo was very serious. If we gotta be that serious, what are
| we gonna do? They were all sitting around there, Mark and
ae John and all these guys, and John says, I got an idea, why
“ Gon't we dress in black =~ that’s serious. They say, OX,
. sounds good. And Paul, Paul is a real clever guy, he said,
x why don't we give up fuckin? Holy shit. Mark was kinda
horny, he said, well, I mean, I heard that Sermon on the
) Mount; he didn't say that. No, they don't really think we're
serious, we gotta fuck it. OK, they did it for two thousand
years. Do you know Saint Augustine? He came up with this
a thing. OS, called original sin; said everybody got it. Go
_—— out and feel guilty, be yourself, yea, I'ms a guilty man,
- ¥ did it, I did it, I did it. So they Surfed bis, he's
buried in about six different countries in Europe. I was
over there and saw him all over the place. They love hin.
—_— Original sin. Wow, that'll sell.
fen “They're only doing about two hundred thousand
\ witches, and then along came the Industrial Revolution, and
: there were all these bankers and guys owned big industries
f and things, called Capitalism, and they said, hey, there's
only one thing wrong here, like, niggere don't wanna keep
working in the fields, and like, these twelve-year-old kids
don't wanna work twenty hours a day. They aren't doing too
good. They gotta help us ovt, so they went up to Switzerland
and they see this guy in a funny little hat and funny shoes
walking around. John Calvin was bia name. He's very serious,
. and they say, hey man, you gotta help us out. He says, yea,
3 I got a good thing, it's called Protestantism. Tell them
* ( they don't work, they ain't gonna get up there. Yea, post-
i: pone their pleasure, keep their money in the bank, keep
7, their nose clean, up with nobility, degrees, see the Army
- oF cut their hair, take a bath, and they'll work cause they
aor] wanna go to heaven. They said that's groovy, that'll keep
‘TE them in there. So they had a little marriage, that value
oe system lent itself quite well to Capitalism. They, they
had that old concept between clean work and dirty work. You
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