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Originally Posted by calgarywinning
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.
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Literally just re-read it along with some of his other works in June. But sure, I guess I'll just "try" to read it some time.
He was a great man with great ideas, but if this is "Thoreau" to you, then maybe you're not really understanding this situation, or you don't really understand Thoreau, in my opinion of course. Maybe you're just trying to shoehorn in a philosophical reference? It's not the best situation for Thoreau, but I get the desire and where you're seeing the loose possibilities.
Even at the most basic understanding, moving to Kelowna and working a government job (or just job in general) that you think you might be miserable in is not even remotely related to anything Thoreau talked about.