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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 Dec 2015

    Fine expose of the overrated Walden by @kathrynschulz.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum …

    9:02 PM - 22 Dec 2015
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      2. Timothy Sandefur‏ @TimothySandefur 22 Dec 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        Always despised Thoreau http://sandefur.typepad.com/freespace/2009/04/i-recently-did-my-patriotic-duty-and-read-walden-or-rather-to-simplify-listened-to-the-audio-book-i-wanted-very-much-to-e.html … @sapinker @kathrynschulz

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      3. Rocketeer‏ @EricAle60758866 22 Dec 2015
        Replying to @TimothySandefur

        @TimothySandefur @sapinker @kathrynschulz Not knowing anything else about you, this alone is enough to get me to follow.

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      1. Em‏ @emmakate48 23 Dec 2015
        Replying to @_junhosong

        @_junhosong I told ya. A fraud, but at least an eloquent fraud

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      1.  ☠ ☸ Mr. Y. V. Ad  ☸ ☠‏ @roykolepoyko 25 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz this type of mysticism is an underrated influence of american libertarianism & leftism, maybe even neocon.

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      1. Tony Duncan‏ @tonydunc 24 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz weren't most icons from many generations ago deeply flawed by todays standards?

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      1. Peregrine Touchwood‏ @MrTouchwood 24 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz practically/existentially "Randians" not misanthropes: e.g. they ended conscription in USA, made Wikipedia, etc

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      1. Peregrine Touchwood‏ @MrTouchwood 24 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz interesting, good points, until part about Rand. #strawman bigtime

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      1. don_johnson‏ @don_johnson999 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz not a big thoreau fan, but this author has quite an emotional investment in this...tone is seething with resentment

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      1. Joe Lee‏ @grinthreyhound 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz 'Economy' is what ppl asked about. News? Try Orwell (fave misanthropic TB victim no2) if you think there is any.

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      1. Kathryn Schulz‏ @kathrynschulz 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Many thanks.

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      1. CB  ⚡‏ @_cbrown1 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz thanks for the irrational anti-libertarian hit piece, thinly veiled as a critique of Thoreau

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      1. Allen Downey‏ @AllenDowney 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz I agree. The "Blair Walden Project" is much better:https://github.com/AllenDowney/blair-walden-project …

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      1. Bryce Wilson‏ @platosprisoner 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz anyone with moral honesty would look down on our current culture as thoreau did on his culture.

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      1. Bryce Wilson‏ @platosprisoner 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz this review of Thoreau mistakenly judges his actions through a social lens. Shallow and missing the point

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      1. Bryce Wilson‏ @platosprisoner 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz to be as restrained as he was counter intuitively required him to be in touch with his emotions. incorruptible

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      1. Bryce Wilson‏ @platosprisoner 23 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz Thoreau knew that 'sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds'

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      1. Stephen Spurling Is... @Drangula‏ @Drangula 22 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz "I am not aware of any theology which holds that the road to Hell is paved with doormats, but Thoreau...." Haha!

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      1. Angus McRockford‏ @AngusRockford 22 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @kathrynschulz Thoreau was a misanthropic nut. Probably would've given the Unabomber a run for his money these days.

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry 22 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker But, what do you think of the sequel, by B.F. Skinner?

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