false 603848 1 <p> The author of <i>How to Be Idle</i>, Tom Hodgkinson, now shares his delightfully irreverent musings on what true independence means and what it takes to be free. <i>The Freedom Manifesto</i> 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&#8212;witty, provocative, sometimes outrageous, yet eminently sage advice for breaking with convention and living an uncluttered, unfettered, and therefore happier, life. </p> 590413 1 12 2007 The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, and Waste total:192|5:50|4:76|3:44|2:18|1:4| 192 726 406 69 4 5 false false Fri Feb 08 07:43:52 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 09:42:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Feb 07 09:29:02 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 07 12:16:45 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 17:23:26 -0800 2007 How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto. Alas, I managed to ignore it's lessons completely and now I work too much and am unhappy b/c of it. Will try again.

The lessons here though are very simple and ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jan 30 11:58:49 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:20:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 11:58:49 -0800 2009
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Altho...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 09:16:22 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 09:23:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 10:18:41 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 06:09:17 -0800 2008 The Freedom Manifesto is a Walden for the 21st century. Tom Hodgkinson proposes a diet of existentialism, absurdism, and anarchism as the path to liberation--basically a Zen approach to life. If life is absurd and meaningless, then why are you going to cry when you don't receive that coveted promoti...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 08 21:08:32 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 13 10:36:41 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 08 21:08:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 09 09:35:10 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 31 09:03:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:02:34 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:39:30 -0700 2009
I didn't finish the whole book, just read it in bits and pieces according to what was causing me grief that day. Today I am feeling house lust...ooh, let me read the ch...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 13:29:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:08:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 13:03:10 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 10:41:05 -0800 2009
Many of the ideas Hodgkinson tosses out in *The Freedom Manifesto* are not new in the least--we all know them, already...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 13:20:05 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 13:25:57 -0800 2008
The author is editor and founder of The Idler magazine and also wrote...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 08:40:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:22:42 -0700 2009
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Hodgkinson finds nice literary quotes, looks back (perhaps a bit romantically) to t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 19:08:37 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 19:14:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:52:41 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:54:22 -0800 2009