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Henry David Thoreau Does Not Respect The Hustle

The Lost Art Of Presence Discovered At Walden Pond

4 min readMar 18, 2021

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Screen shot from: It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) by Don Hertzfeldt. A kalidescope view of a woman laying on a pillow with her eyes closed. Subtitle says: It’s too bad people don’t day how they feel until it’s already too late.” — Photo credit: CriterionBabe. It’s Such a Beautiful Day 2012, Don Hertzfeldt

I don’t think Thoreau would respect the hustle. Maybe I don’t either?

In his masterpiece Walden, Thoreau comes to a similar conclusion to Alan Watts regarding the lies we’re told about agency.

R. C. Abbott

Written by R. C. Abbott

Sometimes.

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