yippies

“Yippies” SMOKE, billowing smoke everywhere one could turn and the worst part is the smell,oh the smell, sweet to the tongue but sour to the nose. The mind seemed to loosen with every breath , as if sailing away the body, the passenger, the mind, the ship, and reality, an anchor, much too light for its vessel. This experience was one exclusive to a Yippie demonstration; and because of the unusual methods used the Yippies of the 1960s had a very unusual impact on the American way of life and economy. As one might assume a change this drastic started with the simple yet effective exploitation of the American “intellectual cast”. But first in order to venture on a literary journey such as this one must first look at the man who started this revolutionary event. Abbot Hoffman was raised as a normal child and lived in a relatively nice family, but this soon changed during his 2nd year of high school by then he had already developed a reputation of a troublemaker when he started stealing cars for fun. He defended these actions by saying “What America got, she stole.” and “Capitalism” is just a polite schoolbook way of saying: “Stealing.”(Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman's “A Yippies Manifesto”). After graduating high school Abbot attended Brandeis University for four years, and during that time he developed a taste for psychology and that is what triggered his distaste for American society. As one might think after reading this could this man really organize a radical movement of this proportion?....No, Abbot was not alone in this endeavor he had the help of a very sociopathic man...Jerry Rubin. Jerry had a childhood much like that of his counterpart Abbot with one exception Jerry was more interested in being “Fuldheim:”So what is your overall goal?” Rubin: To be free from racism...free from pigs” Fuldheim: “ by pigs are you referring to to people or the animal?” Rubin:”People oh no wait I mean cops not people”(Rubin). Because of Jerry’s overwhelming