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CV 176-97 HOFFMAN: I don't know. I mean I don't own people. What do you mean my people? I'm not a plantation owner, 4 sf DOUGLAS: They don't live on my block. They live on “4 your block, and I was just wondering where they come from. HOFFMAN: No, don't say power. Think power. I think we can live in a society in which people don't have power over other people's lives and people play more of a role in determining those things that influence their own lives. on Students play a role in determining policies C that are made on their communities, not their , eee institutions. See, and workers play a role, you know, in determining what goes on in ' their factery. People in a community play a ar role in determining what's taught in their eee | schools and how their police behave. Things like that. We have to get it or this country is going to be washed out to sea. en DOUGLAS: Let's go back to the hippies for a minute, and, and who they are. Why are they, uh, let's wh: maybe approach it from the standpoint of what a they are. Why are these people, these young people, running away from home, Why are they ead - nN coming to New York and living down in the lower East Side, HOFFMAN: Well, I know there are like great sociological documents done on this, but the simple fact is that people run away because they don't like like it where they came from. And it's that simple. They don't like, uh, they don't like, aie | they see that vision of where that suburban | white middie-class life is leading. You know, ad to a nice safe, secure job, with relatively comers unexciting, relatively boredom, boring, plastic ; heart maybe they can get from a good doctor here. And, uh, you know, they can be kept 16