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> He tried to cause as little damage as possible, but the sheer number of break-ins - more than 1,000 over the years, caused a lot of anxiety for some of the ca
by krtkush 7y ago
> He tried to cause as little damage as possible, but the sheer number of break-ins - more than 1,000 over the years, caused a lot of anxiety for some of the cabin owners.
> Why had he turned his back on the world and gone off to live completely alone?
I would hardly define his way of living as turning his back from the world. He was still very much dependant on it and could obviously not live without it.
- Rerarom 7y agoYeah, I'd like to read an account of a 'true' hermit
- ashildr 7y agoSomeone would call it invalid because a “true hermit” would not communicate with society.
- justforyou 7y agoTrue hermits are as rare as true Scotsmen. It's fascinating how emotional people get over an individual pilfering a few supplies.
- Noos 7y agoTom Neale wrote "An Island to Oneself" in which he lived on a remote island multiple times in his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale The government still checked up on him on occasion and he had to return to society due to injury, but he was very much a hermit otherwise.
- fredsir 7y agoFinding materials in nature (e.g. an untouched-by-humans forrest) vs in society (e.g. someones cabin) is not much of a difference if you are not a part of society. All living things need food and other stuff to sustain its life. You go out, shoot a deer to survive, chop down a tree, and head home and you got some food and supplies. You go out, find a cabin, take some food and other stuff and head home and you've got some food and other supplies. The difference is only significant if you follow the rules of society where we don't take each others stuff. But just like we don't bat an eye when we go out and take the life or supplies from an animal that is not part of society, why should a person or another creature that is not part of society think any different when they go into someones cabin and take food and supplies instead of finding the things in untouched nature? Why craft an axe from raw materials when you can just take the one that something else made that is laying right there in that log of wood?
- navigatesol 7y ago>why should a person or another creature that is not part of society think any different when they go into someones cabin and take food and supplies instead of finding the things in untouched nature? Because the creature or its family isn't going to be planning retribution, like I'd be doing if you broke into my property and stole my stuff.
- jdironman 7y agoAh, the gatherer becomes the hunted.
- taneq 7y agoIt's not "gathering" if you're taking things that someone's deliberately prepared for their own future use.
- FakeComments 7y agoIs it inaccurate to say “bears gather honey”?
- snambi 7y agoAbsolutely true. This guy is not a hermit, sounds like an anti-social to me.