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It's as good as "Walden." And probably only equally as true. Thoreau regularly visited friends in town to clean up, get a hot meal, or winter over a tough storm. If you have a support structure, making some choices like that really don't lead to much risk. It's the people who go out there WITHOUT the safety net who are really taking risks.
That doesn't diminish the literary quality of "simplify, simplify," however. Fiction is sometimes better than life.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
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