Iconoclastic Individualism - Henry David Thoreau (part 1)

Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 -- 6 May 1862) born David Henry Thoreau was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV4YHOjJLDk

part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66e7ufanX4

Resist the machine...claim your individuality

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[Omar1487]

Is this Danielle pipe reading this?

[MemeScythe]

@Omar1487

[TSM8088]

Simplicity. May we all find our Walden.

[definemaybe]

Thoreau weened me off of Capitalism as a kid. Thank God for my poverty of worldly things

[TMaw345]

@definemaybe What does capitalism have to do his philosophy? He's not unwilling to pay/trade for items or services received; he's unwilling to pay the tax on those items to support a government he disagrees with. Capitalism is about private profit and private loss - investing money in return for a product; a product who's value is decided by society or a single person.

And if you want to find out more about capitalism, try researching an Austrian economist.

[telltalemse]

I recently published my book and if you're into Thoreau's messages about humanity, or his piece "Walking" or other writers like Gibran, or Orwell, you will most probably enjoy the messages in my poetry too. Specifically those of Part 1, and Part 3. I would appreciate it so much if you could take a second to check it out...

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[HobbesTamThanh]

Enjoy his writing, but individualism is the disease of the modern world.

[b3n1614]

I appreciate this!

[uprightking]

Looks like a his head is laying on a nest, pretty ballsy beard.

[DystopianUtopia]

@CaptionMode

how?

[Willredd94]

@ErikNorseman I agree.