Henry David Thoreau was a reporter to a journal of no wide circulation (according to his words). His accounts were never recognized and he described himself as a “self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms”. He admits to accurately reporting for a number of years until the lack of recognition brings him to tell this story as a description of his situation and chosen course of action.<\/p>\n
Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house
\nof a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. “Do you wish to buy any
\nbaskets?” he asked. “No, we do not want any,” was the reply. “What!”
\nexclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve
\nus?” Having seen his industrious white neighbors so well off–that
\nthe lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and
\nstanding followed–he had said to himself: I will go into business; I
\nwill weave baskets; it is a thing which I can do. Thinking that when he
\nhad made the baskets he would have done his part, and then it would be
\nthe white man’s to buy them. He had not discovered that it was necessary
\nfor him to make it worth the other’s while to buy them, or at least make
\nhim think that it was so, or to make something else which it would be
\nworth his while to buy. I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate
\ntexture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. Yet
\nnot the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them,
\nand instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my
\nbaskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
\nThe life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why
\nshould we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?<\/p>\n-Henry David Thoreau. Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Our society is centered around buying and selling. We devout such attention to selling our selves, our skills, our personality, so that other people will buy our wares, our time, our friendships.\u00a0As a consumer society have we neglected the other side, how to “avoid the necessity of selling”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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