I'm being entirely positive, There are a lot of things that I really don't want or like. For example, television, which given the items on this list should be almost entirely un-necessary. Also politicians. Class ridden english institutions. Cars. Supermarkets. Corruption. Lazy people. These things do not register, except as annoyances.

On a more positive note, I can say that I already have many of these, in some cases (the owls that i can hear as i write this) all the time. Others I get occassionally but often enough (elephants). It certainly is the case that I do what I do (e-learning, philosophy) because my work may make many of these things more possible and common for me and others. However some, i just don't get at all (good cafes). And the purpose of this manifesto? Entirely selfish. I just want more of the things that I like…

• To be able to walk from home to a good cafe. Sit outside in the summer. Waiter service. No smoking. Comfortable chairs.
• Good coffees and food. No music. Read a good newspaper. Meet people. Intelligent discussion. Use wifi.
• Cooking a different recipe every day, with fresh organic ingredients. Mediteranean food. Hot chillis. Fresh herbs from the garden. In season vegetables. Local growers and suppliers. Helpful shop assistants. A glass of good wine.
• Cooking African style braiis (barbecues) with good beef and boerwors.
• Friends visiting often for coffee, and expecting me to visit them (without planning or scheduling).
• Discussing philosophy, art, people, plans for hours.
• Maps.
• Reading and writing books that create new concepts, that fundamentally alter the world in positive ways, that carry people forwards and away on new streams of activity, out of tired and un-productive traps.
• Teaching that has an immediate, lasting and positive effect.
• Working on projects that produce brilliant and positive results, getting feedback, building communities and traditions.
• Working with enthusiastic, (deeply) dedicated, people with expertise and a sense of excitement.
• Experiencing stunning art and theatre that finds itself repeated, in unforeseen ways, in life beyond its frame or stage.
• Riding my GS all day on a dry dirt road with dramatic scenery.
• Driving through wilderness with my wife and baby in an old bakkie.
• Crossing long stretches of terrain and seeing the land slowly change.
• Meeting people in resilient, live, communities embedded in and emergent from their unique localities and histories.
• Trying new local foods in new places.
• Camping alone in the wilderness, with only the sounds of nature and a wood fire.
• Living near owls, buzzards and kites. Eagles and vultures in the wild.
• Watching wild animals and birds. Watching elephants in the water. Big herds of game. Watching wild dogs, cheetahs, and predators.
• Desert dunefields, salt pans, flamingoes.
• Mountain passes and gorges, being above the treeline and in the snow.
• Walking along the sea. Catching fish to eat. Watching whales and dolphins. Good fish and chips. Samphire. Oysters.
• Walking in quiet english countryside, finding fruit to eat on the trees.
• Canoeing along gentle but wild rivers.
• Travelling silently by mokoro in the Okavango Delta.
• Thoughtful journalism (and television) offering new and surprising theories and models about the world.
• Reading and writing about travel, by great authors (Ted Simon, Dervla Murphy).
• Having new music to listen to often. African music. Oliver Mtukudzi. Youssou N'dour. Aster Aweke.
• New music by Kate Bush. Old music by Kate Bush. Any music by Kate Bush.