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Have you caught yourself wondering lately whether modern life might not be quite your cup of tea after all? Wondering why you bother to go to work, why consumer culture is so soulless and – well, crap, and whether there might be a better, happier, freer way to live our lives? Well, with How To Be Free, you can wonder no more. Drawing upon the French existentialists, British punks and US beats, hippies, anarchists, medieval thinkers and back-to-the-landers, Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson provides a new, simple, joyful blueprint for modern living. Here you can learn how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, guilt, boredom, work and much else besides.
Tom says: 'This is a book about good living, and at its heart is a simple truth: when you embrace Lady Liberty, life becomes easier, cheaper and much more fun. My intention is to show you how to remove the mind forg'd manacles and become free to create your own life... How to be free? Well, like it or not, you are free. The real question is whether you choose to exercise that freedom.'
Are you ready?
BAKE BREAD
MUCK ABOUT
QUIT MOANING
STOP CONSUMING
START PRODUCING
BACK TO THE LAND
SMASH USURY
EMBRACE BEAUTY
IGNORE THE STATE
REFORM IS FUTILE
HAIL THE SPADE
HAIL THE QUILL
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
BE CREATIVE
DIG THE EARTH
MAKE COMPOST
DOWN WITH HEALTH
DOWN WITH SAFETY
DOWN WITH WORK
DOWN WITH PENSIONS
BE ALIVE
BE MERRY
BE FREE!
 How To Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson is out now in Hamish Hamilton hardback Read more
Read an edited extract from How To Be Free here
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