Attila Meszlényi: Etiquette of the End of the World
Survival Manual

It is a disconcerting book that may cause outcry. It formulates the rules of appropriate way of life from existential (‘environmental’) point of view in the fields of production, consumption, trade, everyday life, entertainment and culture in general by means of propriety relevant for everyone. Its conclusions are equally valid. They are conceivable and acceptable by anyone still we are against them because they would fundamentally change our lives, our ingrained habits we are insisting on, although they are harmful for us.

Book for everyone. It is understandable to everyone from the well-educated intellectuals till the low educated social classes. It collects those new habits corresponding to existential viewpoints that already work in practice here and there; and offers solution to put temporarily in theory accepted principles into practice. We have long realized the great importance of existential viewpoints in theory, on the level of international control as well as in public thinking, but in vain, theory remains theory, and everything goes on in the same way.
It is a book of practical breakthrough. Practice, practice and practice. Theoretical issues are needed to help the long accepted theory to become practical. That is the reason why it discusses those psychic processes as the conditions and obstacles of the changing approach and informs us about the general methods of putting principles into practice. It shows us how to argue about the most popular dangerous views and how to realize acts by the help of which we try to wriggle out of our unpleasant duties and our responsibility repressing our conscience.
In the brief and simple language of theoretical part the book almost unnoticed outlines the image of a new existential culture and the program of evolution.

The book helps us realise that we cannot blame others for our problems, our own lifestyle is responsible for all the troubles, and only we can change it, independently from our situation, qualification, profession. Right now, today. There is no need to wait.

Table of contents:
Preface
I / Health preservation / Nutrition / Meals / Cleanliness, body care / Clothing, dress / Transport / Economy / Work, profession / Production / Consumption / Waste management / Household / Lifestyle / Entertainment, leisure / Celebration, presents / Relationship between sexes / Coexistence with animals, plants / Coexistence with nature
II / Culture / Principles, treating principles / Psychic life / Improper views

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Budapest, 2008. © Attila Meszlényi, 2008. Number of pages: 104.