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The terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a mise...

Tom Hodgkinson

The terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a mise...

Wir kommen uns klein vor unter den Sternen, aber paradoxerweise fühlen wir uns mehr bei uns. Wir sind, wer wir sind.

Tom Hodgkinson

Wir kommen uns klein vor unter den Sternen, aber paradoxerweise fühlen wir uns mehr bei uns. Wir sind, wer wir sind.

Tags: leben, sterne

About Author
Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer and the editor of The Idler magazine, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. The Idler was named after a series of essays written by Dr Johnson from 1758 to 1760.

Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it’s good for business. Anxiety wi...

Tom Hodgkinson

Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it’s good for business. Anxiety wi...

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

Tom Hodgkinson

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.

Tom Hodgkinson

A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.

Tags: depression, modern life

The fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres.

Tom Hodgkinson

The fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Tom Hodgkinson

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Tags: boredom, truth

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Tom Hodgkinson

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Tags: life, simple, laziness

Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.

Tom Hodgkinson

Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Tom Hodgkinson

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Tags: life, happy, happy life

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Off...

Tom Hodgkinson

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Off...

Tags: alone, silent, digital

Winston Churchill, who abhorred laziness in other people, himself took a nap every afternoon. He defended his afternoon doze in practical terms as an absolute necessity: You must sleep sometime betwee...

Tom Hodgkinson

Winston Churchill, who abhorred laziness in other people, himself took a nap every afternoon. He defended his afternoon doze in practical terms as an absolute necessity: You must sleep sometime betwee...

The first drink of the day brings us into the present moment: we become Buddhists. That first drink also has a physically restorative effect. I find I can spend all day complaining about being tired,...

Tom Hodgkinson

The first drink of the day brings us into the present moment: we become Buddhists. That first drink also has a physically restorative effect. I find I can spend all day complaining about being tired,...

There is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

Tom Hodgkinson

There is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

Tom Hodgkinson

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed. In 1993, I went to interview the late radical philosopher and drugs researcher Terence McKenna....

Tom Hodgkinson

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed. In 1993, I went to interview the late radical philosopher and drugs researcher Terence McKenna....

The dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.

Tom Hodgkinson

The dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.

The myth suggests to us that a good job will offer us ample money, a social life, status and work which we will find rewarding. It’s actually astonishing how little we pause to reflect on these terms...

Tom Hodgkinson

The myth suggests to us that a good job will offer us ample money, a social life, status and work which we will find rewarding. It’s actually astonishing how little we pause to reflect on these terms...

No! Be weak! Give up! You can’t do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

Tom Hodgkinson

No! Be weak! Give up! You can’t do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch...

Tom Hodgkinson

We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch...