This lovely image comes from Adbusters What better time than the New Year than to think about ways to simplify our lives and focus more on things which are really important to us. Thoreau gives us a few pointers (though I am sure he didn't have to worry about mortgages or school fees) and I especially like the way he begins ...... “Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives,” Thoreau began one of his essays, noting that since time was short he would “leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism,” as was his way. “What is it to be born free and not to live free?” he asked his fellow citizens. “Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?” America may have been free from political tyrants, but it was painfully clear to Thoreau that it was “still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant.” A tyrant called Mammon. This world is a place of “incessant business,” he was to lament, and there was “nothing, not even crime...
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