“The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."” ThinkingWantMadeI CanDreamHappensLosesMy OwnHavensBest ThingsRedundant Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.” WorldWantLittlesHomeGoneFlowerTvsClothesBirdCookingGuitarBreadUselessLittle ThingsExhaustedBakingPlaying GuitarSketchingUseless ThingsBird WatchingBaking Bread Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.” IfsThinkingWorldWantGivingFeelsFeelingsHoursEasierPressureWhat You WantGuiltyConquerIndividualismConquer The WorldFeeling GuiltyDoing What You Want Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.” WantNeedsGivingBookMightMagicInternetTerribleChaosWhat You WantShoppingTerrible ThingsAmazon Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.” WantAgeSimplePleasureForgottenWhat You WantSimple PleasuresGetting What You WantBrowsing Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.” ThinkingWantNeedsOrderResultsTelevisionIndustryShoesNewspapersAdvertisingExpensiveMumTrainersIncessantlyVideogameAdvertising IndustryTesco Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.” IfsWantNeedsHas BeensSelfPainDesirePossibilityShapesGardenCastsMonstersConsumersAdamToilHuntersSerpentAdam And EveDrudgeryHunter Gatherers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“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.” PeopleWantOrderFlowerLustConquerFantasticIndianCoveredAnarchyGreyUglinessLorry Author:Tom Hodgkinson
