"Do you ever get frightened by the systems upon systems that we keep on working on into each other? Does it ever bother you? The feeling that you'll never be free, that you'll always be a prisoner?"
This is a question that the ZBS foundation interviewer asked Syd Barrett in a 1967 interview.
For the past few years there has been a slug living in my chest. This slug is cold, moist, and grows bigger and bigger every passing day. Until I watched this interview, I always thought that it just had to do with my hatred for school, that it would pass after I graduated. It is only after I heard this question that I realized that it is not school itself that I dislike, but being a prisoner. I've realized I am tied to a chain of systems, once I leave one, another one follows. There is no escape. After I graduate I will only be thrown into another cell, this one painted with the colors of freedom, but with four iron walls of responsibility and restriction. The slug knew all of this, but what just waiting until I realized before he took hold of my body. I am now one big slug, slithering along, mindlessly leaving traces here and there, waiting for the day someone decides to sprinkle me with salt.