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er ew ee ae NY 100-262445 | railroad trains run on time. However, they do not. We are supposed to have an advanced phone system, but we have been trying to call California for three days. (.-) We live by the book. At a point we must move to go beyond being parasites =nd develop our own phone system. We have to do it ourselves for the society in which we live is committed to falling apart and we must make the decision, are we going to participate in this type of decay, or are we going to start setting up an alternative sytem. yr, In a response to a question from the audience concerning his recent book, "Revolution For The Hell of It", the subject stated substantially as folliows: (e/} This type of question is difficult to answer. He stated I do not write books, I paint them. HOFFMAN stated first I am saying there is a revolution going on in this country; I don't thing we want to explain it. That would be like a direct insult to the people who are not already involved in it by saying, “there is a revolution for the hell of it," but there is no explanation./y) Secondly, I am saying perhaps there is no historical corollary for this particular kind of revolution where young white children from families who have had a great deal, look around and realize in order to keep the silver spoon in their mouth they are going to choke, the way their parents are, Therefore, they run off from home and become involved in different life styles than their parents. So, there is no real revolution that comes because you are pressed against the wall in a physical sense. The Vietnamese have no cnoice but to fight. Black people in the ghettos have no choice but to fight. It is a matter of survival. To the young white kid, it seems to be a psychic need, the same kind of ghetto exists in the suburbs of Baltimore and they have a need to strike out.) Pd