Where has this man been all of my life...
Tom Hodgkinson
His blog, the Idler quoted on another site...
http://www.anxietyculture.com/ratmaze.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2005/06/how_to_be_idle.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2007-12-17-Freedom-Manifesto_N.htm
"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."
"Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it."
"Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life."
"The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together."
"Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities."
"The Western world has allowed freedom, merriment, and responsibility to be taken from it, from ourselves, and substituted with greed, competition, lonely striving, greyness, debts, McDonald's, and GlaxoSmithKline."
"The comfort age offers many comforts but few freedoms."
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