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not it. If it’s defined around perpetual
youth, I’m not it either because I’m 48
years old,” he says.
However, Hoffman certainly isn’t a Yup
pie.
“Young urban professionals rule me out
because I'm middle-aged, I live in a rural
area and I’m not a professional at much of
anything,” he says.
Instead, he's an environmentalist still
working for world peace. In fact, he is cur
rently organizing a group called People’s
Peace Corps to work on construction pro
jects in Nicaragua. Hoffman hopes to re
cruit 1,000 young people for a “two month
stint” to help construct schools and hospi
tals and rebuild towns destroyed by fire.
About Rubin, his former ally in rebel
lion, Hoffman says, “We differ 100 percent
on everything, from the style in which we
dress to the way in which we talk.”
He’s not far from the truth. Rubin is def
initely not a Yippie anymore, dressed in his
conservative business suit and tie. He’s a
Yuppie.
“I have evolved. I am an entrepreneur, a
businessman,” he says. Although Rubin
had a hard time giving up the beliefs, hab
its and anti-feelings of the ’60s, he has
changed.
“I believe that Abbie Hoffman still has
those anti- feelings,” Rubin says. But Ru
bin, himself, believes that businessmen
can be a vehicle of social change that will
create a whole new America.
“In the 1960s, I was always screaming
and yelling about what I believed. Maybe
the problem is being such a believer. All
these true believers are gonna blow each
other up,” Rubin says.
Whereas Hoffman thinks a Yuppie is a
“pretty elitist concept,” Rubin sees them as
innovators.
“Why stay around in the sandbox of the
’60s when you can move into the White
House of the ’80s?” he asks. “Self im
provement should be the purpose of every
one’s life and of the society’s life.”
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