Transcendentalism of Thoreau and Emerson
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. Transcendentalism, in my opinion, is way too contradictory and too vague to be anything but agreed upon. Unless a person wholeheartedly follows what he is told, and never thinks for himself and is content; that is the only case where one can disagree with Transcendentalism. And I have yet to find someone who fits the above criteria. Thoreau says in Walden, 'We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us...' and I couldn't agree more. Technology decides how we live our lives, and controls more and more aspects of our lives each day. For instance, the need of a credit card to stay in a hotel room, now one needs to have a piece of plastic just incase they break something or decide to bumrush the mini-bar. No longer do we decide what we do with technology, and if we do, not to the same extent that technology decides what we do with it. So how can one think for themselves and reach the right decision, when society is telling him that he needs to keep up on technology to do what he wants to do..