Before beginning to look at life and its material goods, one must first look at the definition of "living well". As a modernized society, people today have a multitude of things that they do not need, simply things that they believe they must have. "Living well" can't be described by the amount of goods that we live with, but how we use those goods to better the lives of ourselves and others around us.
It is easy to disagree with Thoreau here, because the statement is very opinionated. Im sure one begins to value things more with the less they have, but having the means to obtain, and not obtaining because of anothers opinion, is just silly. People will never be happy with what they have, they will always want more. That is until someone famous says that what they have is too much, then they will constantly want less, simply because they are too simple-minded to know any better.
Sometimes shooting someone, is just shooting someone.
That was thought provoking. My eyes are now open.
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