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what we say. What it says'is, work for the big companies and we’ll give you everything you want.

This guy comes up to me and says “Hey I’m working for this great company. You can do anything you want. They let me wear sideburns.” “Oh, that’s really great What do you do? ” “Well I do what they tell me.”

“Well, that’s a great step. A lot of companies won’t let you wear side- bums.”

What business are trying to do through Careers is take advantage of the essence of the student rebellion by offering the periphery.

What they say is “Do what we want and we’ll give you an air conditioner, an

expense account and you can wear side- burns.”

But yourjob still is for you to do what th e guy on top says and then tell the people under you what to do.

Now Iimagine what a lot of you are saying is “He’s interesting and kind of funny, but man he’s so sick. He is so depressing. He’s painting a distorted picture. In facta lot of people aren’t really that unhappy. I know a lot of people who beat the system. He’s one of these professional revolutionaries who’s trying to stir me up. He’s trying to get me mad. He’s probably some kind of misfit. I’m going to handle it. I’m going to make it. Some people don’t make it. But I’m going to make it.”

Now I’ll just say that some of you will make it. But I think you’ll make it in very limited terms‘. I think the only way you can make it under the present system th at we both live under is by selling yourself short.

I think the only way you can make it is by saying that the id ea of really doing what you want is Utopian — that the idea of really enjoying life all the time is a nice idea but isn’t practical.

Ifyou make those concessions, then you’re right. You will be happy because wheat each one of you has really said is “I don’t really count.”

What you’re saying is “Despite the fact that we’ve been told that Canada is a democracy and America is a dem ocracy, down deep we all know that we can’t change these God-damn countries. We know people more powerful than us make the decisions.”

As a result, we don’t even want to think about the kind of questions I’m raising, because if I’m right then that means what .is expected of you — to help yourselves — is to become radicals.

If I’m right about how the system treats people then it means that we have to over- throw it and put in its place a society which centers areound people not property.

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And if I’m right about what I said then what it means is that you don’t just say to the people who run the big companies, “Well see, I listened to this guy who comes from S.D.S. and he explained to me that the profit system dehumanizes people and I decided that he is right so I think that the pro fit system dehumanizes people and I decided that he is right so I think that you should get rid of the profit system.”

What you find out is that if we organize to get rid of the profit system, it will be clear that certain people like the profit system.

And the people who like it happen to have a couple of things going for them — to start with, the Armed Forces; and Number 2, the police departments.

So we have a real problem. Because who the hell wants to take on the Armed Forces and the Police?

Who the hell wants to devote their lives to struggling against the institu- tions we’re in — seeing those institutions as institutions that aren’t built for us — when with a little twisting around it’s

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easier to believe in a friendly dean of students who’s going to say, “He had some very good points, but he was exaggerated and we’re working in that direction. No one wants those changes more than I, or as Johnson says, ‘no one wants peace more than me,’ but you can’t have everything at once. You know Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

That’s true, except for one thing. I’m already twenty-five, and people are playing around with my life, and I take my life very seriously. If people admit the problems are what we say they are, then they have a hell of a nerve being

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