Comparison btw. Walden 2 and Civil Disobedience

The government should not watch every move or spell out what one should think or say. In Civil Disobedience, Henry D. Thoreau truly sums it up when he quotes, "That government is best which governs least." For the benefit of the nation as a whole, government issues should start and end where society is concerned, using the loosest interpretation possible. However, Thoreau’s ideal government is far from actual realization, especially even more so after …

…increased chaos and a stronger need for a more controlling, tight-fisted government. As we move toward the millennium and onward, the society that is held in check with a barely existent government is highly unlikely. Such issues such as privacy will be harder to be resolved with idealistic beliefs like laissez-faire and common courtesy. Unlike the transcendental aims described in Thoreau’s Walden, goals will unfortunately correspond more those portrayed in Skinner’s Walden Two.