The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0060823224
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780060823221
Publication Date: December 1, 2007
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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 canceling your credit cards to reading Jean-Paul Sartre, here are excellent suggestions for nourishing mind, body, and spiritâwitty, provocative, sometimes outrageous, yet eminently sage advice for breaking with convention and living an uncluttered, unfettered, and therefore happier, life.
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 A wonderful book! March 21, 2010
Dog Lover (Massachusetts, USA)
All I can say is that this is a must read. I love the author's style and sense of humor... He opened my eyes about a lot of aspects that I was stuck on and made me realize the real meaning of being alive!
I would read it once, twice and every time you feel trapped in the status quo painful system.
A New Perspective on Today's Screwed Up Priorities December 6, 2009
Christopher M. Mcdowell (Phoenix, Arizona)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After having my world turned upside down first by Collins' "Good to Great" and then turned inside-out by Tim Ferris' "The Four-Hour Work Week", Tom Hodgkinson's "The Freedom Manifesto" was the last confirmation I needed that "There isn't a job good enough for me. There isn't a job good enough for anyone." Indeed.
Simply put, this book provides a perspective of life and work that is completely lacking on this side of the Pond. For me, it called into question the reasons why I have worked so hard, found great financial success, and still felt the clichéd question of "Is this all there is?" This is not a self-help book--far from it. Nor is it a diatribe about how you "should" be living your life, rather, it shines a light on the reasons why we now live our lives the way we do. Like Ferris, Mr. Hodgkinson offers some unique suggestions on how to break the completely arbitrary bonds that modern society places on the individual.
If you liked Tim Ferris' challenges to the status quo and Jim Collins' facts and depth, buy this book, you'll enjoy it.
 Odd little book but a nice read. November 4, 2008
Dennis R. Mitton (pacific nw, usa)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an odd little book that I both enjoyed and shook my head at. On the whole the book is very readable. It's written in a conversational style with a kind of populist comfortability. It's a lot like talking to your grandpa about life on the farm. Hodgkinson offers lots of friendly advice and I think this is where the book does well - if you're looking for a coherent philosophy of simplicity and escape you won't find it here. For those of you familiar with the Britcom "The Good Neighbors" you could imagine Tom Good reading a couple chapters in front of the fire each night.
What I don't understand is Hodgkinson's skewed view of history: he seems to hold to an overly romantic view of history and especially of the middle ages. He refers to them frequently as time when trade guilds took care of their members, when times were more gentle and kind, and when everyone just got along in happy harmony. Silly facts like a thirty year old life span, rampant disease and poverty, and almost complete lack of freedom never seem to bother him.
In all I give the book four stars for general entertainment and you'll definitely come away thinking about things differently
Read it, take a nap, then lie in the grass and watch the clouds go by October 29, 2008
Turing Complete
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Finally, an antidote for all those personal productivity books that make you feel guilty for not being an optimally efficient wage'bot, forever getting things done with your highly effective habits. This book made me feel happy about the times when I kick back and become a total slacker.
yeaah!! October 15, 2008
H. Hughes (Chicago, IL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent book full of common sense and I don't know...I thought it was lovely and hopeful and more people should read it and follow some of the advice and give up all of the nonsense that it opposes because there is nothing wrong with anything Hodgkinson suggests. It is a no argument sort of thing...only if you believe in humans and the idea of them living a wonderful, whole, and fruitful life full of freedom and love and truth. And for the reviewer who said this book is for sociopaths...what the hell do you even mean? I do not think you are clear on what a sociopath is and it would be good to look it up and get clear because your comment made me laugh; it was so weird.
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