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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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“guy, he said, why don't we give up f...? Holy s... Mark was
kinda h..., 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
seriovs, we gotta f... it. OK, they did it for two thousand
years. Do you know Saint Augustine? He came up with this
thing. OS, called original sin; said everybody got it. Go
out and feel guilty, be yourself, yea, I'ms a guilty man,
I did it, I did it, I did it. So they buried him, he's
buried in about six different countries in Europe. I was
..aver there.and srw him all over the placc. Thcy love him.
Original sin. Wow, that'll sell.
"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 and things, called
Capitalism, and they said, Hey, there's only one thing wrong here,
like, niggers 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 out, so they went .-
up to Switzerland and tuey see tiis guy in a funny little hat and
Perens mh naanem eteatliz-iuaw aenenaA wm hh —_ae ret =
zaunny SnOes waiking around. gonn Calvin was his name. He's
very serious, and they say, hey man, you gotta help us out.
He says, yea, I got a good thing, it's called Protestantism.
Tell them they don't work, they ain't gonna get up there. Yea,
postpone their pleasure, keep their mone; in the bank, keep their
nose clean, up with nobility, degrees, see the Army cut their
hair, take a bath, and they'll work cause they wanna go to
heaven. They said that's groovy, that'll keep them in there. ‘
So they had a little marriage, that value system lent itself
quite well to Capitalism. They, they had that old concept
between clean work and dirty work. You don't wanna do dirty
work. Whose gonna pick up the garbage? I'm not; I wanna be an
insurance salesman. That's clean work, Keep your fingers
clean. Mow the lawn. Drug salesman. I was a drug salesman.
' Not that kind. You don't sell that kind, yougive it away. I
worked for this company, Westwood Pharmaceutical. I don't .
know if you know any of their products - they make something
for acne, you know, and stuff for bad breath. I never met .
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