A Life in the Woods

The first book of philosophy I ever read was Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. I read it in high school, and was mesmerized. The volume I had included his essay on Civil Disobedience; it's fair to say that book is what eventually led me to study philosophy in university. 

I read something the other day that said that the moral of Walden should not be that technology and civilization are bad, but rather that we need to pay more attention to how we use technology. That's fair enough. To that end, I'm off for a few days to paddle around Algonquin Park in Ontario. I'm looking forward to getting off Twitter and the rest of the internet for a while, but I'll see you all back here next week. 

Feel free to keep sending me any links or ideas or criticisms or anything else; I really welcome the correspondence and I value the acquaintances I've made through this book and this blog. 

- ap