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Walden

Walden
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In the same year, Henry Thoreau published ‘Walden’ which describes life in a simple log cabin in rural Massachusetts, with plenty of time for reading and reflection. It explores the psychological deprivation inflected on capitalist society. In the crazed pursuit of superabundant commodities, humankind has forgotten the reason and purpose of life altogether, and has even begun to invent new needs in order to justify the disproportionate amount of time spent at work manufacturing unnecessary commodities. Thoreau has a profoundly Aristotelian fantasy: every village in New England will one day subsidize its own Lyceum, full of books, newspapers, learned journals and works of art, and invite the wisest men in the world to visit and enlighten the local population during their extensive leisure hours. Aristotle would have approved of Thoereu’s emphasis on education as the solution to the “problem” of using leisure constructively. He was painfully aware that people in general are not socially prepared for making good choices about how to use their leisure time, even though, in his view, it is the most important part of our lives. He went so far as to argue that good use of leisure is an ideal society would be the main goal and objective of education. Hgis outlook could scarcely be more modern. ~ Page 186

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