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~ 7 a Lee C L ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "society. Free speech don't mean a pile of shit. You can go down and have a picket in town, so what? Who cares? There are probably people picketing the UN right now against the war in Vietnam, every fuckin night for like eighteen years, so what? We gotta learn new methods. The medium is a mess, that's what it is. Marshall McLuren (phonetic) said that.. The medium is a mess:" (Comments from audience ~ not clear.) "We are(?) in heaven. We, uh, we got some men working on it." (Laughter) "I mean, first of all, let me say, let me say what the problem is in you asking that question, ‘cause see, see we're brothers, you know? I mean, we turn on the tube at the same time, we see the war in Vietnam, we see it in the same kind of a way, we know what kind of society we're living in, you know, why are you asking me that question?" (Person from audience asks, “What was the question?") (Laughter). Hoffman replies. . "The question, what are we gonna put in its place. See? You just start off and you say, I got an idea. Don't start off with the premise that this thrilling and unjust system is a creative act of love. OK? So uh, so the first alternative is nothing. That's a better alternative than now--nothing, see? So like what happens, what's nothing like? People say, and they say ah, those hip...why're you people all sitting around doing 50