Civil disobedience
would never be the same after Henry David Thoreau - it became a
mission. Although for
Thoreau a sense of duty is not in a crusade to change the world, but to achieve
authenticity for oneself. The
injustice of the world is a consistent fact of the human condition. Yet wrongs and righting them seems
to be the calling for a culture of altruism. How much obnoxious revulsion has been planted from the seeds
of philanthropy? The
disconnect from the essence of Thoreau has produced more branches of evil from
social intrusion than substance for striking at the root. Was this man a philosopher of
worldly fundamental nature or was he merely an icon for non-conformity
living? Who is the Thoreau of
Walden and what does his philosophy mean for our age?
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