THE BOOK

Unfortunately, the United States is nowhere near ready for the four-hour day. We remain thoroughly addicted to consumerism, to violence, and to class hierarchy. A very few of us, though, are already asking the appropriate questions, and it is to this audience that we offer The Four-hour Day. This is a utopian novel that explores a social order devoted to taking the necessary time for human development. What would really happen if we realized that the exercise of individual creativity is more fun than watching TV? What would law and order look like under the non-violent regime of a de-mystified Jesus and Gandhi? Could we really ever transcend money? What sexual patterns will emerge once brute force disappears from economic transactions?

The Four-hour Day is neither a bible nor a road map. It is merely an inventory of large questions, and none of them are multiple-choice. It is an invitation to think about who we are and why we do the things we do. And it's also a challenge to take nothing for granted.

Simply by clicking on Download the Book, you will receive an instantaneous electronic copy of The Four-hour Day. Please note the absence of any copyright protection, so feel free to reprint as many copies as you like. You may even sell them for whatever the market will bear. If you re-write the book completely and put your own name on the title page, that would be the best possible indication that you've caught the drift of the four-hour day.

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