Here: Peter Bagge makes the pro-Thoreau argument in comic book style (Reason).
FROM THE EMAIL: Balfegor writes:
Isn't the characterisation of Thoreau's critics in that comic a bit of a straw man? I had heard that he was a self-centred misanthrope, yes, but mostly I hear people mocking him for play-acting at self-sufficiency while his mother was still doing his laundry. He strikes me as a recognisable type: the 19th century equivalent of a trust fund socialist.
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