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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
Thoreau also believed that there was no such thing as learned wisdom, that the older you got the less you knew, and didn't like government.
Moving to Kelowna and taking a government job is not, in fact, very Henry David Thoreau.
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You should try reading Walden. The experiment where he left society to live on his own as low key as possible. It's about taking the less beaten path for your own personal needs, which in my opinion, what the OP is questioning.
His mistrust of government was in terms of government passing laws which override your common sense or ability to live freely, which around the time of his life was burgeoning topic with the balance of individual freedom which was hard fought for and laws of government.
His parents also had a pencil factory, but that's not relevant to this conversation.