Happy Harry’s Radical Manifesto
by The Guardian Culture Desk – Feature
Somewhere in Hamburg lives an artist who published a manifesto – and hours later, Pope Francis died.
His name is Happy Harry.
Well, actually, Happy is his first name. The rest is art.
Happy is not a man in the conventional sense. He is an avatar, a speaking sculpture, a poetic system error. Created by a German craftsman with a past in informatics and a present in radical solitude, Harry calls it “bio-neurological necessity.” Most others would call it: uncompromising art.
In the early morning of April 21st, 2025, at precisely 06:30, Happy Harry uploaded his “Manifesto of Radical Responsibility” to the web. At its core: a philosophical hand grenade thrown into the cradle of Western parenting.
“Every child,” it reads, “should have a right to lifelong maintenance by the parents who brought them into existence.”
It’s not satire. It’s not a joke.
It’s ethics sharpened into a demand.
A few hours later, Pope Francis died.
“No connection,” Harry insists. “Or maybe cosmic rhythm?”
This is not Harry’s first piece of living literature. He also published a historical novel salvaged from the archives of Hamburg’s past, and his autobiographical work 'Happy Harry - Seriously Disturbed'. He talks to his inner woman, and treats existence like a conceptual stage. “I live in voluntary info-isolation,” he says. “I don’t follow the world. I create my own.”
Now, he’s bringing his ideas to the streets – with QR stickers, poetry slams, and what he calls “thought graffiti.” His hope? To find others who also think too much. His fear? That no one listens.
But make no mistake: Happy Harry is not trying to go viral. He’s trying to go true.
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