You'd also think Thoreau a dick for renouncing society for a time, yes? What he needs right now is to acknowledge that he's just another ordinary human OP is

You'd also think Thoreau a dick for renouncing society for a time, yes? What he needs right now is to acknowledge that he's just another ordinary human OP is on an experiment to put his ordinariness as a human being to the test. I'm grateful for a view from the sidelines. "A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's." -- Whately And a man is called arrogant not for how much he strives to better himself but for how he belittles his neighbor. Sorry that you feel belittled.