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Whatcha think?

>> No.3104754

Impossible thanks to capitalism, private property, the nation state, corporatism and globalisation.

>> No.3104767

One of the best books I have read.

>> No.3104768

>>3104767
read more

>> No.3104778

>>3104754

I reckon you could still do it. What about that journalist (from the Guardian, maybe?) who learned how to live totally self-sufficiently? Just suss shit from him and find some unowned land somewhere in the world. I'm sure there's a bit left.

>> No.3104780

>>3104754
this.

fucking private property is the biggest bullshit. I was sitting in a fucking huge parking lot drinking coffee, smoking, and reading, and of fucking course the fucking security guard had to come and force me off. I wasn't doing anything that would bother anyone else, but oh shit, this is private fucking property man. there's no place for me to just chill and read anymore unless I buy the land.

Fuck America.

>> No.3104785

>>3104768

you can't grasp my thoreau

>> No.3104783

>>3104754
It is absolutely still possible. Don't jump to that conclusion so fast.

>> No.3104813

>>3104783
explain?

>> No.3104827

>"HEY GUYS I'M GOING TO LIVE OUTSIDE OF SOCIETY, DON'T TRY TO HOLD ME BACK"
>"WOW THIS IS HARD, BETTER COME BACK AND STEAL FOOD FROM MY MOTHER'S CABINET"

>> No.3104829

>>3104754
>>3104813
>http://www.vice.com/far-out/heimos-arctic-refuge-1-of-5

>> No.3104841

>>3104829
Yeah possible if you're the rich privileged kid that magazine is aimed for

>> No.3104844

>>3104841
have you seen the series? it's pretty interesting. i wouldn't want to live like that though.

>implying im not a working class african-american kid living in the projects

>> No.3104848
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3104848

>>3104841
dat ad hominem

>> No.3104865

>>3104844
>working class
>african-american
does not compute

>> No.3104879
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3104879

>>3104750
Ah, Walden...

>Dat Transcendentalism.
>Dat "Fuck you guvmint".
>Dat philosophy.
>Dat abrupt ending.

This fucking book... It made me want to live the rest of my life in a cabin deep in the wilderness living off the land. So much feels...

>> No.3104911

>>3104829
Looks like it could be a /k/ project.

>> No.3104919

>>3104879

Transcendentalism's great. Not something I could ever subscribe to fully, but filled with pearls of wisdom to return to occasionally for guidance and strength.

>> No.3104920

>>3104879
my professor visited the house and told us that a bunch of kids had taken a picture with the Thoreau statue and one put a donut in his outstretched hand.

>> No.3104930

>>3104848
No it's not. I was still talking about the issue.

>> No.3104942

>>3104919
Agreed. Taking what you need from it is a lot better than going off the deep end about it.
Kind of like Buddhism. I like the meditating and peacefulness of it, but I'm not gonna go full retard about it and start wearing orange robes while some asshole hits me with a plank of wood.

>> No.3104950

Good ideas, except when you consider that the shack he built was only a mile from Emerson's house. He went to Emerson's house almost nightly to eat dinner and took his laundry home to wash it.

>Tl;dr - Thoreau lived like a college student only in the woods