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FIGHTING THE AFFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

IN AMERICA THROUGH

THOREAU’S WALDEN By Lauren

Victory

January 30, 2015

Fighting the Affluenza Epidemic in America By Lauren Victory

“Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men? I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house.”

NOT KNOWING HOW YOUR POSSESSIONS ARE BUILT

Kev in Harv ick ’s house in Oak R idge , NC

“Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men? I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house.”

BUILDING YOUR OWN HOUSE


House o f Windows was bu i l t by ar t i s t i c couple in West Vi rg in ia o f o ld w indows and rec la imed wood


“I was obligated to hire a team and a man for the plowing, though I held the plow myself.”

TO HIRE OTHERS TO DO WORK YOU CAN DO

AutoBe l l Car Wash Serv ices


“I was obligated to hire a team and a man for the plowing, though I held the plow myself.”

TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING BY YOURSELF

B o y e n j o y s w a s h i n g h i s p a r e n t ’ s c a r


“I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put rout all that was not life…”

LIVING WITHOUT ORDER OR HARD WORK

Te e n i n m e s s y , d i s o r g a n i z e d r o o m


“I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put rout all that was not life…”

LIVING A STRUCTURED, ORDERED LIFE

O r g a n i z e d , s t r u c t u r e d r o o m


“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

WANTING THINGS YOU REALLY DON’T NEED

H o w m a n y s h o e s & h a n d b a g s d o e s o n e p e r s o n n e e d ?


“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

LIVING WITH THINGS YOU ONLY NEED


“I say let your aff airs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.”

SOCIAL MEDIA


“I say let your aff airs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.”

HAVING ONLY A FEW CLOSE FRIENDS


“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?”

FILLING YOUR TIME WITH PEOPLE

C r o w d e d C o n c e r t


“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?”

HAVING TIME FOR YOURSELF

Te e n e n j o y i n g a l o n e t i m e r e a d i n g a b o o k


“I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.”

SAME BORING ROUTINE

G o i n g t h r o u g h t h e s a m e r o u t i n e a n d m o t i o n s o v e r a n d o v e r


“I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.”

EXPERIENCE NEW THINGS

S k y d i v i n g = A d v e n t u r e


“ Simplicity, simplicity. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.”

HOARDING

To o M u c h B e c o m e s C l u t t e r a n d … . w e l l , T O O M U C H !


“ Simplicity, simplicity. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.”

KEEPING YOUR POSSESSIONS TO A MINIMUM


“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

TECHNOLOGY


“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

NOT DEPENDING ON TECHNOLOGY

E x p r e s s i n g y o u r s e l f b y w r i t i n g i n a j o u r n a l i s s t i l l w o r t h w h i l e


“How warn and dusty must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.”

STATUS QUO

D o i n g t h i n g s t h e w a y t h e y ’ v e a l w a y s b e e n d o n e = S t a t u s Q u o


“How warn and dusty must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.”

BE ORIGINAL

E x p r e s s i n g y o u r s e l f b y w r i t i n g i n a j o u r n a l i s s t i l l w o r t h w h i l e

F o l l o w y o u r o w n p a t h


“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a diff erent drum. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

FOLLOWING OTHERS BLINDLY

F o l l o w i n g t h e C r o w d ; N o t S e e i n g T h i n g s f o r O u r s e l v e s


“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a diff erent drum. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

LEADING YOUR OWN LIFE

W h a t i f w e t a u g h t l i t t l e c h i l d r e n t o l i s t e n t o t h e i r i n t u i t i o n ?


“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

UNCONSCIOUSNESS

M a n y a m a n a r e u n c o n s c i o u s


“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

CONSCIOUSNESS

G r o w t h c o m e s t h r o u g h C o n s c i o u s n e s s


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