Mental Breakdown of a Nation

The anti-preneur manifesto

I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person.

I don’t want to be a designer, a marketer, an illustrator, a brander, a social media consultant, a multi-platform guru, an interface wizard, a writer of copy, a technological assistant, an applicator, an aesthetic king, a notable user, a profit-maximizer, a bottom-line analyzer, a meme generator, a hit tracker, a re-poster, a sponsored blogger, a starred commentator, an online retailer, a viral relayer, a handle, a font or a page. I don’t want to be linked in, tuned in, ‘liked’, incorporated, listed or programmed. 
I don’t want to be a brand, a representative, an ambassador, a bestseller or a chart-topper. I don’t want to be a human resource or part of your human capital.

I don’t want to be an entrepreneur of myself.

Don’t listen to the founders, the employers, the newspapers, the pundits, the editors, the forecasters, the researchers, the branders, the career counselors, the prime minister, the job market, Michel Foucault or your haughty brother in finance – there’s something else!

I want to be a lover, a teacher, a wanderer, an assembler of words, a sculptor of immaterial, a maker of instruments, a Socratic philosopherπ and an erratic muse. I want to be a community center, a piece of art, a wonky cursive script and an old-growth tree! I want to be a disrupter, a creator, an apocalyptic visionary, a master of reconfiguration, 
a hypocritical parent, an illegal download and a choose-your-own-adventure! I want to be a renegade agitator! 
A licker of ice cream! An organizer of mischief! A released charge! A double jump on the trampoline! A wayward youth! A volunteer! A partner.

I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person.

Unlimited availabilities. No followers required. Only friends.

Danielle Leduc

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Anonymous

“...Oh and by the way I must tell you, before I sign off, that I've got a meeting next week,
with the head of a big corporate I can't disclose who but I'm sure you'll know it and.
And the Burning Sky - keeps burning bright. And it won't turn off til it's had enough,
it's the greedy bastard who won't give up, and you're just a dreamer if you don't realize,
and the sooner you do will be the better for you, then we'll all be happy and we'll all be
wise and all bow down to the Burning Sky...” BURNING SKY - The Jam

Anonymous

There used to be tones of posts for years at adbusters, way before ows and now, 10 comments is a feat. we have abandoned this place as a forum for discussion, the reason being we prefer to exchange 10-words monosylabical grrrroushns on facebook, a machine that alienates our communications and makes meaningful dialogue extremely unliely. sad

Anonymous

"I agree. now how can I do it and still make a living?"

That's it. The very idea that we have to MAKE a living, that our very existence is dependent upon the expansion of capital. Stop making a living and you'll begin to live.

Mitch Mitchell

We can't devolve in one step. We'd have to regress one step at a time, likewalking backwards through the evolutionary chart. Divest megacorps, localize farms and business, back through artisanal economics, through primitive barter, finally arriving at stoneage creative philosophy. The problem is, we don't want to.

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