Permeating the modern world, technology revolutionizes the existing precepts of society, generating new opportunities and advancements. Moreover, technology provides society access to connect with the world, spread cultures, and learn. However, while technology remains a valuable resource, it can disrupt the inner peace of society and lure many away from their truthful life. As a result, society could be leaving behind their conscience, not thinking about individual importance, but unnecessary global events or social media feeds. Similar to the idea of being spiritually lost, the romantics in the 19th century addressed the way humanity has lost reason to organically think and feel beautiful emotion, conscience, and nature. More specifically, …show more content…
Blinded by material pleasures and meaningless jobs, Thoreau argues that within humanity, the growing disconnection between man and conscience has driven society soulless, effectively eliminating the self-reliance found throughout individualism. Furthermore, not only has man lost inner value, but society externally has altered into immoral majorities and unjust governmental machines. Thoreau fights for the legitimate viewpoint in society, “ but [the] little virtue in the action of masses of men”(847) has created an internal problem of the uncoordinated population fueling and conforming to the government. Within this process of supporting governmental injustice, Thoreau acknowledges the principle root to the problem of the loss of individuality within society. Men are not aware of the surrounding natural world. Consequently, humanity has not …show more content…
In conformity with romantic principles, the idealist philosophy describes the innate purpose of man to seek the right path and answer. Government only exist because man put it there, therefore, man should have the right to change that government. Instead of vowing to change society and government, government has started to change man, taking away what truthful freedom is. In accordance with Thoreau, “the authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to… is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it” (857). Concerning the idealist philosophy, Thoreau discerns the consequences of a government made up of illegitimate power, ruling machines not men. Moreover, social contracts, implicit agreements among the members of a society to sacrifice personal sovereignty in order to create a government, are completely destroyed. Upon giving up individual freedom for government, members at large create rules and boundaries to help guide humanity and civilization, yet whether that society is “good or bad” it does not matter as long as the government is just. However, “a State at least which can afford to be