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How does Thoreau feel about commerce? He writes, "We don't ride upon the railroad; it rides upon us." He wants and end to the war fighting for the almighty buck.
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- 00:02
Okay here's Question The stance taken by the road in
- 00:04
the last paragraph can best be described as what All
- 00:06
right well let's go back here You've got to get
- 00:08
to the last paragraph is like a dream confederacy made
- 00:10
up of penn state senate itself in all its so
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- 00:11
called internal movement without leaving its mark Simplicity of like
- 00:13
that So let's see where are we Well the correct
- 00:18
answer here Yeah It's c he's a critic of commerce
- 00:21
is an end goal So the last paragraph sees throw
- 00:24
railing hop pun intended there against commerce He suggests that
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it hurts regular people going so far as to say
- 00:31
that the railroad rides up on us He criticizes people
- 00:35
who insist the nation must be able to export ice
- 00:38
use a telegraph and ride on trains regardless of whether
- 00:41
they themselves ever get to do any of those things
- 00:44
like the nation can do it But the individual What
- 00:46
about him or her Well his main problem is that
- 00:49
this thirst for growth goes unexamined like the life not
- 00:53
worth living He's unsure if rapid growth contributes to the
- 00:57
health and well being of the country And well he
- 00:59
just like humanity to reconsider the centrality of commerce in
- 01:03
life you have fighting for the almighty buck All right
- 01:06
Well he's a definite curmudgeon But not all grumpy old
- 01:10
men are traditional or conservative Eso es get rid of
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that In fact the row is quite a radical even
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though some of his ideas advocate a return to a
- 01:18
simpler time Small scale family farming seems to fit in
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with his police But now he doesn't mention it in
- 01:24
the passage here so we can just make it up
- 01:26
and throw it in there So get rid of b
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And finally he doesn't believe that the germans or anyone
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else are out to get us he's using germany as
- 01:33
a symbol or rather a metaphor for over complication Alright
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so more on the simplify simplify scale So just keep 00:01:41.452 --> [endTime] doing it
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