ABSTRACT
I mean our thing’s for TV. We don’t want to get on Meet the Press. What’s that shit? We want Ed Sullivan, [the] Johnny Carson show, we want the shit where people are lookin’ at it and diggin’ it.
Abbie Hoffman (1969a:48)
[A constitutional republic] cannot forever withstand continual carnival on the streets of its cities and the campuses of the nation. Unless sage debate replaces the belligerent strutting now used so extensively, reason will be consumed and the death of logic will surely follow.
