Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
Tom HodgkinsonAfter the alarm clock, it is the turn of Mr Kellogg to shame us into action. 'Rise and Shine!' he exhorts us from the Corn Flakes packet. The physical act of crunching cornflakes or other cereals is portraied in TV advertising as working an amazing alchemy on slothful human beings: the incoherent, unshaven sluggard (bad) is magically transformed into a smart and jolly worker full of vigour and purpose (good) by the positive power of cereal. Kellogg himself, tellingly, was a puritanical health-nut who never had sex (he preferred enemas). Such are the architects of our daily life.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: humor
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.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: freedom capitalism anarchism adam-and-eve
I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, then you can banish forever that terrible sense of doom one feels at 9 A.M. with eight hours of straight toil ahead. Not only that, but a nap can offer a glimpse into a twilight nether world where gods play and dreams happen.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: naps
There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.
Tom HodgkinsonBeing safe is fiction.
Tom HodgkinsonIt's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .
Tom HodgkinsonWe bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
Tom HodgkinsonPain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: pain creativity illness
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
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