THE TAKE IT EASY MANIFESTO

As practicing Dudeists we have all observed that people in the general populace are imbued with varying degrees of Dude.

VERY DUDE

For instance, there are some with so little Dude in their being as to be considered Antidudes. Loud, obnoxious, violent and unyieldingly opinionated, these folks constitute the opposite extreme of Dudeism. On the other hand, we encounter folks that, even if not fully realized Dudeists have a bit of the Dude flowing in their being. Take the guy that is stuck working hard in a stressed out office all week long to support his family, yet on the weekend likes to take a long slow drive through town listening to CCR. Not a full-blown Dudeist but at least an admirer of the way. The ultimate goal of lounging in our bathtub listening to whale songs while smoking a spliff with no idea what day of the week it may be (Dudervana, if you like) is not easily attainable by all. It takes a degree of slackerdom most people are not undisciplined enough to accomplish.

There is certainly a tendency for individuals to align towards or away from this most holy of states. Take the guy in the used book store who got back late from lunch just in time to sell you a tattered version of "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut. He taps the cover of your newly purchased tome and says with a classic stoner chuckle "nice one man," You just know there is a white Russian somewhere in his not too distant future — very Dude. But then his store manager openly barks at him for chatting too long with the customer and not sweeping out the supply room — very unDude. We witness varying degrees of Dude, a Dude Continuum, so to speak, contained within cities, institutions, rooms, groups of folks and even within individual people themselves.

VERY UNDUDE

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