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thenewgreen  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Alone, Not Lonely: On Modern Hermits

BLOB_CASTLE, does hermitage appeal to you at all or is just our monetary culture you disapprove of? Would you live like one of these two types of hermit?





BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3936 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hermitage does not appeal to me at all. It's not that I don't just want to live without money, I'd also like to live such a life in a community. At the end of Into the Wild, the main character writes (as he's dying after eating a poisonous plant) "happiness is meant to be shared." How hermits live a solitary life, I'll never understand. It seems to be that the hermits who have cars, computers, jobs, are essentially introverts while others do it out of opposition with the system (man).