The Readers' Thoreau | Ken Wolfson | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/vindication/activity/ Activity feed for Ken Wolfson. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:19:33 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 584ba341f4963f0eb9b068b3a637e4e8 Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post RCG 36-45 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/civil/resistance-to-civil-government/rcg-36-45/#comment-12 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:55:35 -0500 When I read this paragraph I can’t help but think of Thoreau’s statements on living deliberately.  He doesn’t care about the government, he’s only going to pay taxes to the parts of society he personally […]

]]> 0 52829d43f4a189270e173ed7f34d973a Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post RCG 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/civil/resistance-to-civil-government/rcg-1-14/#comment-11 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:38:00 -0500 Does this qualify Thoreau as an anarchist?  He’s certainly advocating for a society without governmental force, and possibly run by natural law.  I guess this would make him a philosophical enemy of Locke.

]]> 0 100672235028293161e20182bd435421 Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post Baker Farm in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/baker-farm/#comment-2979 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 22:31:25 -0500 The Field family are an example of the kind of worker Thoreau examined in economy paragraph 49.  He’s working for his home his whole life and yet he’ll never have enough money to afford his own home or live […]

]]> 0 7513627b120c757f868a62deee9349d1 Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post Reading in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/reading/#comment-2976 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:18:22 -0500 I agree with the statement that Thoreau wanted us to be students throughout our life.  I think he didn’t want us to theoretically restrict our learning to one part of our lives (hence his dislike of university,) […]

]]> 0 aa0a8bb10b72715ef37a0bdba49660cb Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post Economy 82-97 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-82-97/#comment-2975 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:33:08 -0500 Thoreau talking about waste and excess.  It sounds like he’s mocking his neighbors for their wasteful habits, which would fall in line with his feelings throughout Walden.

]]> 0 d5eeeb3e71b0f9ca78ac3667cda281a3 Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-2974 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:12:09 -0500 I think the point of the piece is to defy this quote.  Thoreau’s cabin in the woods is to let him escape the masses of men and live the life that satisfies him.

]]> 0 920373e107506f98f062b94c865b4ee6 Ken Wolfson left a comment on a post Economy 45-58 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-45-58/#comment-2966 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:45:18 -0500 According to Thoreau, in the modern society labor often goes unrewarded.  Hard and honest work yields little positive results due to the convoluted rules of finance and farmers cannot change that and have to […]

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