This interview clarified many things for me on the subject on Anarchism. I had never fully understood the subject. I knew the general theory of having no government, but not why it would be better and if there was even proof we could function. Zerzan talked of a time, about ten thousand years ago, when agriculture arose. Before then we had the same intelligence we have now, yet had no need for records and TV and radio and all that `fun stuff'. He made a point that the division of labor came around at about this point, as did the mass alienation that division of labor brought. He spoke of how we became corrupted by this creation of agriculture.

I believe Zerzan made a very good point about how we are conditioned to live in our culture. The whole way that we learn so early on to be at a place by some certain time is very frustrating for children, or at least it was for me. "Why cant I finish playing this game?" or "Why cant we wait until this-and-that is over?" are ways I still use to get out of doing something right on time. Zerzan spoke of time and said "A second of time is nothing, and to grant it independent existence runs counter to our experience of life" (pg6). That quote summed up his views on time I believe, and also made me think for a very long period. I have lived my whole life `on the clock' with school, work, friends and family, but it really does make no sense. How is our time telling make any sense? For work, why don't I get paid based on how well I did and how hard I tried, not just how long I spent there?? Our way of time is only available and usable on this planet, and even we have to adjust it every couple hundred miles. Perhaps if we start to colonize other planets it will get better, but who knows. I have no desire to try to think that far ahead.

Zerzan also made a very good point about division of labor. We have the educators (hey Bruce! ) who teach us what we need to know later, but they only seem to know certain parts of the whole story. (`Sides Bruce cuz hes soooo cool) We have the merchants (me) who sell you what you `have to have'. We have the producers, (??) who create the raw materials. We have the white-collar office people (my parents), whose point I do not truly understand as of yet. And then the blue collar workers (my uncle) who take the producers substance, and make it so the merchants can sell it to the white collar office people, and the educators, and then those in-between people. But even for those in between people, there is no getting out of some category. And it was rather painful to realize that. I am going to grow up and contribute to a society that is corrupt and quite meaningless. We have proved no point in existing, and Zerzan spoke of that. All we do is mass produce and consume, nothing better. We make no impact. And most of us don't even try.

The interview with Zerzan reminded me quite a bit of the Media Issues and Video Technology class at Lahser with Dr. Learmont. It reminded me of the "Media Issues" I learned in that class, and brought on a whole new mental debate of how I can try to get out of our society's normal in a way. I really enjoyed the article, although it was long, I found many important points throughout it that I am still trying to figure out.