Since the invention of money, it is considered a "free person" who has a lot of money, has his own house, car, company and does not depend monetarily on others to be able to live, who can afford all the luxuries that he wants and has enough power purchasing to buy whatever, whenever.
Fighting against these impositions has always been an almost impossible task, those who come to think outside the mold can’t avoid feeling repelled by society, feeling imprisoned, feeling that everything they should do is already defined, that their life must follow the imposed patterns to be successful and productive for society.
Not all are capable of submitting to these terms and that is when they come out in search of what freedom really is. As was the case of Christopher McCandless, or as he was nicknamed Alexander Supertramp, who left everything aside and disconnected from that society, when he graduated he decided to give all his money to charity and went out in search of that freedom, to meet itself and live a period of time in real contact with nature.
Walking paths and hitchhiking until reaching the destiny that he set out to reach in Alaska. Where he lived 4 months in an abandoned bus in the middle of nowhere in pure contact with nature, until unfortunately he mistakenly ate a poisoned food that caused him to become seriously ill, when he tried to return, he discovered that there was no escape due to a river flood. Causing his death a few days later.
His trip has turned him into a cultural icon, criticized by some and loved by others. His story was taken to the movies in 2007. Directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch. Based on the complete story of what McCandless lived during his trip, his thoughts and reflections, until his death.
Personally, I recommend them.
We must find a balance in our lives and in society, learn to differentiate what we really need to live and what they have made us believe we need. You can not stop the evolution, much less stop the progress, but we can not let technology and material things absorb us, cancel our thoughts and separate us more and more from nature.
I leave as an example this man, who shows us that what I speak is not impossible. Nature and technology can coexist.
