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Book: The Freedom Manifesto
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  1. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.
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  2. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.
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  3. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its weather.
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  4. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Don't bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away.
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  5. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
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  6. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.
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  7. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.
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  8. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.
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  9. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    Career is just posh slavery."
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  10. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.
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  11. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.
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  12. Tom Hodgkinson _ The Freedom Manifesto

    ...{W}e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.
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