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Essentially we like him because he was like us: hypocrites? As the article says he was full of him self. He was a liar. He didn’t live on his own. People cared
by controversy 6y ago
Essentially we like him because he was like us: hypocrites? As the article says he was full of him self. He was a liar. He didn’t live on his own. People cared for him out of their own pocket. Those who love home do so because they want to be like him: a lying moralist that hypocritically says that we are better than you so listen to us. I hated him at 14. I hate him now.
- sabujp 6y agoyea i realized a few years ago we were lied to back in high school
- corporateslave5 6y agoI read Walden when I was 16 without knowing anything about him. I’ve never felt so enlightened as that time. I don’t care about the literary critiques and background information. That book lit a fire in my young mind
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- TehCorwiz 6y agoI don't know why you're getting down voted. Thoreau was a world class slacker and leach. A friend of mine did a paper on him back in college. If you read through his correspondence with R.W. Emmerson it's obvious how he was coddled. EDIT: I think the hyper judgemental part about people liking him wanting to be like him. That part might be disingenuous, if only because he didn't really espouse his own actual lifestyle in his writing.
- Lineup 6y agoAnd, so commonly, oblivious to any of this himself. Next stop Ayn Rand. I've tried to expunge Walden from my mind, but I'll note that it was pretty useful getting dates in college ("university", said EU)