The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste
 

The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, and Waste

by Tom Hodgkinson

The 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... (read more)

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rima
  • Rated 5 stars

This book will change your views on practically everything you think is worth your time or your effort. Read it and be free. It just might change your life.

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cbreyes
  • Rated 2 stars

I only give this ine 2 stars because while I agree that we should simpilify our lives and go green he goes about discussing this in a most elitist way. Sure that's fine for someone in his position or similar but he doesn't address people who are not. For example he states how gathering food from the woods is still possible and how he has done so. Fine but what if all the people in your community did so and depended on that as one of their only food sources. How long would it actually...

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