I didn’t care much for the lengthy debate about how Thoreau would respond to the seeing Walden The Game. The better silly question is how would he feel about televisions, computers and smartphones. (Perhaps he’d reach for some heavy rocks and walk right into that pond.) I can’t imagine how I might respond to a version of my own artistic creation updated for an audience in the year 2100. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m an optimist or pessimist.
Thoreau has crashed and burned really hard for me. Like a lot of twenty-somethings, I used to be obsessed with him. Now I can’t stand the persona. So it’s hard for me to think about the video game without first considering Thoreau’s essential fraudulence. The mom/laundry thing is perfectly chill, it’s the lying about it in the book that’s not.
Walden VR is really gonna be a trip. You’ll be able to just go visit the cabin, with or without robo-Thoreau, in the woods by the pond! That will be pretty insane and probably possible in a few years. Probably already possible.
But regardless, none of this stuff is as good as the book and the book isnt even that great. And he was the worst.
There’s a lot to unpack here.
I didn’t care much for the lengthy debate about how Thoreau would respond to the seeing Walden The Game. The better silly question is how would he feel about televisions, computers and smartphones. (Perhaps he’d reach for some heavy rocks and walk right into that pond.) I can’t imagine how I might respond to a version of my own artistic creation updated for an audience in the year 2100. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m an optimist or pessimist.
Thoreau has crashed and burned really hard for me. Like a lot of twenty-somethings, I used to be obsessed with him. Now I can’t stand the persona. So it’s hard for me to think about the video game without first considering Thoreau’s essential fraudulence. The mom/laundry thing is perfectly chill, it’s the lying about it in the book that’s not.
Walden VR is really gonna be a trip. You’ll be able to just go visit the cabin, with or without robo-Thoreau, in the woods by the pond! That will be pretty insane and probably possible in a few years. Probably already possible.
But regardless, none of this stuff is as good as the book and the book isnt even that great. And he was the worst.
We all need to just go for a walk.