Fear. Anxiety. Paranoia. Dyslexia? Omit that last word and you have three keys to the opposite of what we as human beings should embrace. The Freedom Manifesto is like a hand book to how to reclaim your life and stand up and yell! The Freedom Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson is a great, simple read.

The book is not a how to book, nor is it suppose to be. Instead it’s a humorous journey through the why’s and butt’s of our life in a linear progression that is not too unlike some better blog posts that I’ve read in recent times. I hate how this world has so many of us gripped in fear.

The Economy is bad.

The Measles are bad.

Vaccinations are wrong.

Home Schooling is the greatest.

Caffeine kills you.

Caffeine helps you.

Jesus isn’t real.

Jesus is real.

Terrorists are on the prowl.

Terrorism is here.

Terror.

Fear.

Lots of things scare Americans, lots of things scare Mexicans. This book talks about it in a very frank manner and gives you ideas on how or why it’s all just stupid. Yeah, it’s stupid.

I am doing a horrible review of this book aren’t I?

The book is small in size but thicker than a children’s book. It’s a quick read with a lot of great pieces of banter. You feel as though the writer is having a conversation with you, rather than just giving professional advice. The book makes you ask questions rather than to just think everything is a conspiracy against you. It’s a sane book of insane ideas.

I’ll give you a great bit from my own life. I started getting a newspaper delivered to my house daily. Instead of finding out all the great news around the globe and in my own neck of the woods, I began to start to worry. If it wasn’t the bees dying, it was the bats dying, or the school walk outs, the war on terror, the Obama rockstardom, the McCain/Mcsame controversy, the weak dollar, the high price of oil, all sorts of panic.

Then I stopped to think.

I started to ask questions. Questions like: “If the unemployment rate is 4% and the highest ever, what about the 96% of people employed?” Things started to make a lot of sense when I asked more questions. Then I read this book, and in the book, nestled in its own story of development, there was the same experience by the author that I had. I was beginning to fear, rather than ask questions. So now, I don’t get a newspaper daily, but I read online news and ask questions.

I’m thankful. That’s for sure.

This book is great, pick it up, and stop worrying America and the world…unless you’re getting bombed, in which case I’m sorry. Really, I am.

Tom Hodgkinson’s Freedom Manifesto is a good, quick read, and available through amazon.com online, or in your favorite bookstore.

It’s also part of the 1,000 books you’ll never read, available here online.