Ultimate Individualist?
by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny
Interesting indeed. Today's progressives (liberals) no doubt have huge issues with Thoreau his individualism.
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny
Interesting indeed. Today's progressives (liberals) no doubt have huge issues with Thoreau his individualism.
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.
I am old enough to remember that this man was once warmly embraced by the left.
ReplyDeleteNow that they own the joint, he is a criminal of the state and his writings anathematized.
Funny how that works (out) isn't it.
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