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Teachers & SchoolsThe passage theme. What's it all about? Thoreau wants simplicity in life. ("Simplify, simplify.") The world is overly complex, materialistic. A move to the woods made his life worth living.
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is toe literally shout their name Simplicity simplicity simplicity anyway
yes hdtvs ultimate point is that people should live simply
He goes to the woods in orderto live a simple
life and focus solely on what was called oh yeah
living all his criticism of modern convenience and iphones And
why max and driverless cars yeah is based around the
fact that it unnecessarily complicates life Throw isn't concerned about
safety in this passage He's worried about the spiritual danger
is not the physical one So yeah toss eh After
all if you were worried about physical dangers silently probably
spend some time talking about how to avoid bears and
wolves while living simply in the woods you know without
a gun also throw himself moved to the woods But
while he never attack city life specifically so goodbye be
it may be hard to live simply in a city
but throws criticizing convenience not apartments Nor is he concerned
about saving nature from technology So goodbye See his argument
runs that modern conveniences are bad for people not nature
Of course nobody ever showed throw a youtube video of
a sad polar bear riding a tiny iceberg out to 00:01:24.946 --> [endTime] sea