There must be some internal urge in humans like hunger or horniness that takes over their rational mind and compels them to assign the shameful label of “hypocrite” upon others.
When your insecurity and jealousy is too uncomfortable to deal with you can knock a successful person down below your level by finding a flaw (real or imagined) and call them a hypocrite. This of course negates all of that person’s wisdom and accomplishments because being a hypocrite is the worst thing you can be in this world apparently.
Walden is about simple living and never claimed to be about one man against the world rugged self-sufficiency.
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typed up with zeal about Thoreau and Walden.
A Sketchy History Of Pencil Lead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Influence
Is he arguing that he is truly and fully self reliant, or is he just experimenting with self reliance? If it’s the latter then I think it’s unreasonable to complain that he didn’t achieve 100% full self reliance since that’s impossible, but if he’s obnoxiously talking about how he doesn’t need anyone while enjoying all these privileges then I totally get the hypocrisy complaints.