manifesto craft
notes on writing manifestos that light both yours and readers’ hearts on fire
manifesto craft
The problem with raging against the machine is that the machine has learned to feed off rage
Liv Boeree • Tweet
New worldviews are bubbling away in little cauldrons all the time, but they only flow into the mainstream (eg become part of corporate trainings, official gov't policy, school curricula) when they are structurally of service to preserve the power status quo.
Emmett Shearx.com1. Manifestos usually include a list of numbered tenets.
The format has been de rigeur since at least as far back as The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789). It conveys a sense of urgency and straight talk. This is also why manifestos feel so contemporary: their close resemblance to click-bait top 10 lists.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing
In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: “Younger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,” they cried. “We want it to happen!” Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
"Even if my expectations are unreasonable I would prefer to keep them"
Simon Sarris • Tweet
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin
Patrick OShaughnessyx.comI couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers.
Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.
After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Aaron Francis
Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.
After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Aaron Francis