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Features:
How to Avoid Responsibilities – Don’t read this if you’re a responsible member of the community.
Coercion With a Smile – Friendly "persuasion" or Orwellian doublespeak? – The coercive tricks of corporate/government PR.
Finding Your Purpose – Don’t be a slave to the purposes of others.
Today’s Sermon – Why you don’t have to earn a living.
How to Stop Worrying – Some useful psychological gimmicks.
Work Hell – Exposing work myths. Useful facts & figures.
Your Duty to Phone In Sick – Phoning in sick is the best thing you can do for the economy.
Instant Wish-fulfiller – A 15-minute hedonistic de-anxietiser.
Media-free Zones – Avoiding the media to keep your sanity.
"Real" Positive Thinking – The type of positive thinking that needn't upset pessimists.
Office Slave – our new column for the Guardian newspaper.

Regulars:
News Frames – Our new blog. How the news is framed, and how it affects your brain. Also on Twitter.
Diary of Distractions – Our media diary (archive only - now replaced by our blog).
Rant – Short, topical, opinionated pieces. Regularly updated.
Newsletter – Our free monthly email newsletter. The latest news, reviews and notifications of website updates. Subscribe now...
FAQ / Contact Details – Background info on Anxiety Culture.
Lazy Person’s Guide to Power – Our 200-page ebook is available to download when you make a small donation.

Amusement Arcade:
Propaganda Gallery – Large collection (50+ pages) of designs for stickers, posters and postcards. High quality images – for printing.
Family Values Generator – Randomly generates the tender, caring environment of a stable family upbringing. Well, not quite.
Zombie Plus Loyalty Card – Shopping for the undead, with our all-purpose loyalty card. Get yours here now! Genuine plastic.
Jokes – This week: jokes about radio show subversion, how to sack people, 10 things not to say to the police, and more.
Are You Moral? – Try our quiz to see if you’re "morally correct".

Control Systems:
The Guilt System – Your hidden, unresolved guilt makes you vulnerable. How to undo it.
The Distraction System – Society turns focused people into distracted automatons. Hedonistic focus to the rescue.
The Consumer-anxiety System – How our economy depends on consumer anxiety.
The Disapproval System – How advertisers and propagandists exploit our fear of disapproval.
The Inner Dictator – Think bad things and be unreasonably happy.
Controlled by Words – Certain words function as social control-mechanisms. You can easily identify them...
The Metaphysical System – Unsuspected metaphysical beliefs control us, until we become aware of them.
The Propaganda System – Semantic propaganda, and how to defend yourself against it.
Empire of Emotion – Emotion as a sold commodity, and as a social control system. Who is pushing your emotional buttons?
Anti-Perspectivism – How ruling authorities depend on "absolute truths" to control people. And how they misrepresent "relativism".
How to Stupidise People – Prevent yourself from being stupidised!

Media-related:
BBC's misleading crime headlines – We noticed a pattern of crime misreporting on BBC News Online – a consistent cherry-picking of "rises" in crime (which often weren't rises at all).
Dialogue with BBC's Mark Easton (on crime reporting) – Our recent correspondence with the BBC reporter about scaremongering BBC crime reports.
Web Witch-hunts – An unpleasant new phenomenon. This article approaches the subject via Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" and Nietzsche's views on "morality".
Subversive Stats – A collection of statistics for refuting common media fallacies.
8,000 years of anti-social behaviour – Puts the current scare over "yobs" into perspective. Includes some great quotes from the distant past about moral decline.
Crime Fixation Watch – On media exaggeration of crime. Featuring Scaremonger Watch, Terrorist Watch, CCTV Watch & Citizen Watch.
Media scaremongering on crime – Update on how crime rates are distorted by the media.
Naivety TV – Has TV news disappeared up its own “sophisticated” backside? We pose some big, “naive”, childlike questions.
NSPCO – National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty in Offices. Our spoof charity site.
Letters to Newspapers – A lazy person’s guide to getting unconventional views published.
Survey Questions Outrage – How pollsters slant their questions to get results fit for tabloid sensationalism. Exclusive!

Miscellaneous:
Today's Sermon II – On how to distinguish between absolute blame and practical blame, to avoid hysterical blaming frenzies.
Stress contagion – short article on the infectiousness of stress/anxiety, and how best to avoid it.
Motivation Seminar – Motivating the herd: a power-talk by our CEO. Originally printed in Sleaze magazine.
Scheme for Full Employment – Well, sort of...
Office Rat Maze – The psychological control of employees. Originally printed in the Idler.
Belief Manipulation – Useful information about belief systems, “common sense”, Naive Realism and feeling good.
Stupid, Pointless Jobs – the growth of pointless jobs. If you thought full employment was a good thing, think again.
Is Work Bad for You? – 60% of UK employees dislike their jobs and find their work pointless.
Clare Voyens ~ Anxiety Aunt – We’ve commissioned this famous TV sex therapist to answer your personal problems. She also lets you in on the secrets of sex in advertising!
Sadism in High Places – Sadism, slavery, the ruling class, authoritarian society, Original Sin and the Queen of England’s pheasant-strangling exploits. By Clare Voyens.
Repeating Thought Loops – Change your mind.
Creating Anxiety-Free Zones – Desirable, unhealthy, antisocial escapes from reality are good for you when indulged in excessively.
Irony Deficit – Appreciation of irony is falling rapidly amongst the older age groups. Daily Mail readers are particularly badly affected.
Household Debt & Bank Rip-offs – How banks profit from the poor, the low-paid and the financially desperate.
Debt Trap – The high level of consumer debt, and how debt functions as a social control mechanism.
Book Review – Critical review of Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate.
Bullied by Corporate Finks – We use the word "caution" in a T-shirt design. A designer-clothing brand says we infringe their trademark.

Extended Articles:
Bluffer's Guide to Revolutionary Economics – Capitalism & socialism aren't the only options. How to bluff expertise on the alternatives.
Guía para el economista inconformista – Spanish version of above.
The Bureaucracy Curse – Bureaucracy and the taboo of complaining. Originally printed in the Idler.
Time-management madness – Imposed time management systems make you miserable, and they don't work.
Anxiety Attack – Article on the philosophy behind Anxiety Culture. Originally printed in the Idler and later reprinted by The Guardian.
Capitalism Crib-Sheet – A leaflet (double-sided A4 sheet – needs Adobe Acrobat to view and print) which is useful for rebutting all those tired old clichés about the so-called “free market”.
The Puritan Work Ethic – Spend a day in bed.
The Beginning of the End of Work – 75% of work can be automated (which could be a good thing).
A Critical Path Primer – Our easy-to-follow guide on Buckminster Fuller's acclaimed and important book.
Obsolete Free-Market Metaphors – The “free” market seems like a myth. Monopoly anyone?