At first “A Hacker Manifesto” is a bit tricky to understand. I was caught off guard by the philosophy of hacking. I never thought of hacking as an abstract thing, just something people did to demonstrate their computer know-how or to steal information. From reading this i gained a new perception of the hacking world. What i first thought was interesting was the Wark’s idea that a creation of a new class divide had occurred. The class divide between Hackers and a Vectoralist class. The cause of this class divide Wark believes is from the rise in intellectual property. I feel in agreement towards his view on this, within hacking there are people who divulge information for the sake of spreading the truth and there are people who want to come into possession of this information.

The next thing i found interesting was Wark’s view on education. He believes that “education is slavery,” which seems to be a pretty bold statement.  Wark deems education as a way for the “ruling class” to kind of control what knowledge people gain. He says that education only grants people partial knowledge. I agree with this idea, it is impossible for someone to gain complete knowledge even if they go to school for their whole life. The next point from his section on education goes further into specifics on this “ruling class.” Wark explains that this “ruling class” can control other classes with capitol. The ruling class provides the money and the other class, the pastoralist class, provides the bodies to manage the equipment necessary for the job. I feel that this is an interesting view on the progression of society. Over the course of a couple hundred years the advancement of society has deemed what education was necessary. Such as progression through the industrial age, where society needed people to work in factories. So the owners of these factories, in a way provided the education for the workers to work in such factories.