Hey guys! Long time no post! I've been busy off in both the interwebs and in Spain- just got back from my concert tour which was extremely successful and fun 😀
Anyways, I've been reading Thoreau's Walden for english class lately, and found that a few of his quotes are profoundly relevant when applied to modern contexts, sometimes even to the point of being funny
So, I wrote two blog posts when I just took ~20 quotes and put them in new contexts. Here's the first, and the second.
One of the quotes I didn't include, but wanted to post here, was one where Thoreau echoes MJ's sentiment about the 2 different costs of parasitic debt (pg. 183 in the Fastlane book)
1) The actual dollar cost, and 2) The free time transformed into indentured time
Here's what Thoreau had to say about that, in his "I love nature and transcendentalist" way:
"One says to me, 'I wonder why you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg to-day and see the country.' But I am wiser then that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. That is almost a day's wages. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night... You will in the mean while have earned your fare, and arrive there some time to-morrow, or possibly this evening if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here in the greater part of the day."
Yeah, i know, seems like it contradicts the whole idea of not wasting hours of time to save only a little money, but what I think it really illustrates is that there's two costs to everything: the dollar cost, and the time it takes to earn that money!
Anyways, I've been reading Thoreau's Walden for english class lately, and found that a few of his quotes are profoundly relevant when applied to modern contexts, sometimes even to the point of being funny
So, I wrote two blog posts when I just took ~20 quotes and put them in new contexts. Here's the first, and the second.One of the quotes I didn't include, but wanted to post here, was one where Thoreau echoes MJ's sentiment about the 2 different costs of parasitic debt (pg. 183 in the Fastlane book)
1) The actual dollar cost, and 2) The free time transformed into indentured time
Here's what Thoreau had to say about that, in his "I love nature and transcendentalist" way:
"One says to me, 'I wonder why you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg to-day and see the country.' But I am wiser then that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. That is almost a day's wages. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night... You will in the mean while have earned your fare, and arrive there some time to-morrow, or possibly this evening if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here in the greater part of the day."
Yeah, i know, seems like it contradicts the whole idea of not wasting hours of time to save only a little money, but what I think it really illustrates is that there's two costs to everything: the dollar cost, and the time it takes to earn that money!
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