Chocolates make us energetic
<span>The scene
you are referring to in _Walk Two Moons_ occurs in Chapter 23, “The Badlands.” When Sal’s mother says she wants to visit
Idaho in order for her cousin, whom she has not seen in 15 years, to tell her
what she is really like, she means that she wants to be told (or even reminded)
what she was like before she was a mother and before she was married. It seems as if she wants to be reminded of
the person she feels she no longer is.
And, to come into contact with one whose last memory of her is of whom
she used to be is why she wants to go to Idaho.</span>
<span>In his book Walden, a reflection on the act of living as simply as possible, Thoreau spoke at length on the impact of technology on our daily lives and humanity as a whole. He believed that technology was leading to a degradation of our relations with one another and with the natural world. He cited the construction of a telegraph line from Maine to Texas, saying,"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph line from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." We can see them same in our modern day quest for the "next big thing"; snapping up the latest iPhone for hundreds of dollars, posting ever more on social media, with many having nothing important to contribute to a wider world despite access to that world at an unprecedented level. As a society, we have at our fingertips the lessons and work of all the world's great thinkers and scholars, and yet a great number of people use the potential at hand to watch funny cat videos. I believe that this is a sign of the degradation that Thoreau spoke of made manifest.</span>
<span>It's true, that animalism is based on the philosophy and economic policy of </span><span>Karl Marx.</span>
