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How to live a good life

Understanding your place in the world

Francis Fish

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The author woke one morning realising that most people have been hypnotised by the capitalist realities of the world we live in. There is no easy way to break through the illusions, and the painful individualism, that have been foisted upon us. The idea for the book came then, a simple explanation of how the world is put together and how to live a good life based on that better understanding.

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Francis Fish

Born 1959 in Edinburgh. Father was a doctor and university lecturer in psychiatry and Mother had been psychiatric ward sister. Both were of relatively humble origins. Father had been a prisoner of war. When Francis was about 5 they went to live in Liverpool because Father had been asked to take up the newly created professorship there. They lived in the grounds of the now long-gone lunatic asylum while they looked for somewhere to live. Eventually they ended up living in a big house in the suburbs on the South of the city.

Eventually he gained a degree in Applied Statistics and Computing in 1987 and has earned his living writing software ever since. He is a British Canoe Union qualified level 3 kayak instructor. He is married to a six foot red head; they have two children and live in a big house in Birkenhead. He is committed Buddhist.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

The six pillars of human happiness

  1. Food autonomy
  2. Shelter autonomy
  3. Education autonomy
  4. Healthcare autonomy
  5. Contingency
  6. Mobility

Objective reality

What is capitalism?

Capitalism as dream time

Capitalism is a con

  1. Behind the curtain
  2. Taking back control
  3. Industrial society
  4. Invisible violence
  5. Slow violence
  6. Who owns your mind?

The Commons

There’s no such thing as society

Planning Myths

Intractable problems

  1. Poverty and war
  2. The market solves nothing

Monstrous acts of collaboration

Decay is good

Recipies and simple solutions

The good life

Implacable Fury (women and children first)

Women and children first

Implacable Fury

Neurodivergent

Holding corporations to account

  1. Equity confiscation
  2. Changing liability laws
  3. Banning stock buy back

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