An old High School classmate on Facebook posted this. I haven't looked at the rest of the website, but reading the article sort of reminded me of MMM. It shares some of the same ideas, but I'd say more extreme and much more offensive.
It is an article reviewing the work of an earlier "frugalist" who was active 1969-1996. For him it seems more than just a way of living, but sort of a super-political statement. Some of the criticisms of MMM seem to be that his practices could bring down consumerism, but this earlier author appears to have practiced ultra-frugalism (you could even call it "early retirement") for that very reason.
That said, he does make some very good points:
Where do you start? Stop loading your biocomputer (brain) with the mental junk food dispensed by the TV and the radio. Stop eating sugary food and medicating with cheap cigarettes and booze. Stop wasting your money on “labor-saving devices” that mysteriously require you to work longer hours than your “backwards” ancestors to afford and replace them.
What do you think? Does he go too far?
http://alternativeright.com/blog/2013/5/26/i-was-robot-by-ernest-mann
