Ten Humble Thoughts About Manifesto Writings

I wrote this in mid-2023, and re-wrote part of it today

 1.  I've read around seve manifesto pieces (the last one being this Nashville nutcase) in my life, and generally....all of them have the problem of a writer who is marginally rational, sometimes severely irrational and probably not capable of living in a society with other people.

2.  The writers of manifesto documents....tend to want to fix/resolve world or society problems.  I'm not saying their vision or thoughts would work....just that they want a broke system to be fixed.

3.  Even a 3rd grader could probably sit and write a simple one-page manifesto.  I'm not saying it's a talent you really need....just that anyone can write BS like that.

4.  People seem to be attracted to commerce, political or society type manifestos.  You just don't see someone writing a manifesto over NBA rules, winter tires, or weight issues.

I'll add here.....if you asked me about it being a male or female thing.....women seem less inclined to fix things....so I think it's mostly a male-dominated thing.

5.   When someone wants to protect you from reading a manifesto....they seem to have the thought that you can't handle the content or chosen topic.  Naturally, they have read it....meaning they can handle it.

6.  I get the sense (maybe I'm wrong) that more men write manifesto documents, than women.  Maybe women just walk out and skip this BS-gotta-write-a-manifesto, and just make change without a lot of chatter.

7.  There doesn't seem to be any value to writing a 7-page manifesto....to writing a 700-page manifesto....on the same subject material.  You'd think that readability would make a guy keep change ideas to just twenty pages max.

My advice....if you are leaning toward 700 pages of manifesto....you probably should be looking for real work (hauling hay), or starting cult following.

8.  Is the Bible a manifesto?  Well.....you might make the case that the Old Testament might fit into this way.  

9.  The problem in that two guys could write a manifesto each....on the same topic....equaling 700 pages each, and each come to a totally separate vision/problem?  Yeah, it's possible.

10.  The odds of a hundred folks being offered 'free' manifesto material, and 99 flat turn down the opportunity to read such a document?   Yeah, that is part of the sales problem of manifesto creation.