How To Be Free

263 Pages·2007·1.41 MB·English

by  Tom Hodgkinson

Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree
2 Break the Bonds of Boredom
3 The Tyranny of Bills and the Freedom of Simplicity
4 Reject Career and All Its Empty Promises
5 Get out of the City
6 End Class War
7 Cast Off Your Watch
8 Stop Competing
9 Escape Debt
10 Death to Shopping, or Fleeing the Prison of Consumer Desire
11 Smash the Fetters of Fear
12 Forget Government
13 Say No to Guilt and Free Your Spirit
14 No More Housework, or the Power of the Candle
15 Banish Loneliness
16 Submit No More to the Machine, Use Your Hands
17 In Praise of Melancholy
18 Stop Moaning; Be Merry
19 Live Mortgage-Free; Be a Happy Wanderer
20 The Anti-Nuclear Family
21 Disarm Pain
22 Stop Worrying about Your Pension and Get a Life
23 Sail Away from Rudeness and towards a New Era of Courtesy, Civility and Grace
24 Self-Important Puritans Must Die
25 Live Free of the Supermarkets
26 The Reign of the Ugly is Over; Long Live Beauty, Quality, Fraternity!
27 Depose the Tyrant Wealth
28 Reject Waste; Embrace Thrift
29 Stop Working, Start Living
Further Reading
Free Resources
Acknowledgements
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tom Hodgkinson was born in 1968 and is the author of How To Be Idle. He is
editor and co-founder of the Idler and contributes to the Guardian, Sunday Times
and Independent on Sunday. He also imported absinthe for a while. He lives in
Devon with his family.

PENGUIN BOOKS
HOW TO BE FREE
‘Packed with wit, anecdotes and ideas … by the end you’ll want to grow your
own vegetables, put on a gig in your living room, or at least read one of the
many books he refers to throughout’ Word
‘How To Be Free offers some solutions to escaping the “mind-forg’d manacles” … the advice is proffered
with wit’ Financial Times
‘Good-humoured and encouraging, which bolsters his central argument that, seeing as life is essentially
absurd, we may as well be happy all the time’ New Statesman

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