The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and WasteThe author of How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson, now shares his delightfully irreverent musings on what true independence means and what it takes to be free. The Freedom Manifesto draws on French existentialists, British punks, beat poets, hippies and yippies, medieval thinkers, and anarchists to provide a new, simple, joyful blueprint for modern living. From growing your own vegetables to canceling your credit cards to reading Jean-Paul Sartre, here are excellent suggestions for nourishing mind, body, and spirit—witty, provocative, sometimes outrageous, yet eminently sage advice for breaking with convention and living an uncluttered, unfettered, and therefore happier, life. |
Contents
The Tyranny of Bills and the Freedom of Simplicity | |
Reject Career and All Its Empty Promises | |
Get out of the City | |
End Class | |
Cast Off Your Watch | |
Submit No More to the Machine Use Your Hands | |
In Praise of Melancholy | |
Stop Moaning Be Merry | |
Live MortgageFree Be a Happy Wanderer | |
The AntiNuclear Family | |
Disarm Pain | |
Stop Worrying about Your Pension and Get a Life | |
Sail Away from Rudeness and towards a New Era of Courtesy Civility and Grace | |
Stop Competing | |
Escape Debt | |
Death to Shopping or Fleeing the Prison of Consumer Desire | |
Smash the Fetters of Fear | |
Forget Government | |
Say No to Guilt and Free Your Spirit | |
No More Housework or the Power of the Candle | |
Banish Loneliness | |
SelfImportant Puritans Must | |
Live Free of the Supermarkets | |
The Reign of the Ugly is Over Long Live Beauty Quality Fraternity | |
Depose the Tyrant Wealth | |
Reject Waste Embrace Thrift | |
Stop Working Start Living | |
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