The Unprofessional Interviews -- Michael Greenwell Interviews Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- Atlantic Free Press

March 7, 2009 -- The next in the Unprofessional Interviews series is Mickey Z., author of one novel, CPR for Dummies, and several fiction books and contributor to this site, ZNet, Press Action and others too numerous to mention.

Michael Greenwell: Orwell, Huxley, Monbiot, Ursula Le Guin and many others have written or talked about the anarchist dilemma. In short the problem they all described in various ways is that a truly anarchist community that was peaceful and self-contained is always vulnerable to outside attack by more aggressive neighbours. Can you see any way around this?

Mickey Z: I agree that a truly anarchist society -- read: the threat of a good example -- would be attacked by all sides of the political spectrum but I’m not so sure such a society would, by definition, be either peaceful or self-contained. It could involve participants in the least likely places and also, would be unafraid to meet aggression with effective self-defense.

MG: What is the most bizarre objection you have had to your work?

MZ: Not sure, but I’d like to share my most recent bit of fan mail:

“Die painfully okay? Prefearbly by getting crushed to death in a garbage compactor, by getting your face cut-to-ribbons with a pocketknife, your head cracked open with a baseball bat, your stomach sliced open and your entrails spilled out, and your eyeballs ripped out of their sockets. Fucking bitch.”

MG: Who is the biggest waste of oxygen on the planet?

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