/lit/ - Literature

>>21922556
It's basically an escapist fantasy that you can be entirely self-reliant innawood with zero preparation or help. The classical thinkers all knew socialization was the mark of a civilized person, and we are meant to live in a society.

There are also writers who have done this way more responsibly and without the delusion of society bad, like in Walden, Heart of Darkness, Desert Fathers, etc.

And personally, as a person who appreciates the art of bushcraft and survivalism, this book makes every possible mistake. It is like a guide on how to die of ignorance. He could have prepared himself with education, supplies, a group to travel with, transoprtation. But instead of furnishing these things through hard work, he wastes the hard work and material of others to his own demise. There is no virtue in what he did. He is praised only by sheltered wealthy urbanites who imagine they are experiencing a more simple life vicariously through a runaway abused adolescent.