There is a lot of good streamers on that service that make a living off of it. I’m not talking about the big ones either, I’m talking about the speedrunners and other niche streamers that have an audience of around 100 to 1000 viewers during a stream.

I’m going to guess it’s some variation on “being a really shitty person.”

The earth is healing, nature is returning.

He sounds kinda like Grizzly Man, who thought he could just go play with bears.

Into the Wild is a terrific book, and McCandless is a fascinating figure. He spent 2 years traveling the country as a hobo before he went to his death in Alaska. There he found an unforgiving wilderness that has killed many people far more prepared than he. I would have loved to hear about his perspective and…

I like to compare McCandless and Timothy Treadwell to Dick Proenneke. Chris and Timothy thought Alaska was some transformative place where they could find out who they really were, but didn’t take any steps to meet Alaska on Alaska’s terms. Proenneke did, and he lived out there for almost 30 years. McCandless and…

And, THAT, is the best summary.

that sounds gnarly, did you make it out alive? 

He died because he was an idiot.

That theory is HIGHLY controversial... and far from confirmed. Krakauer, in his re-telling of this, certainly played up that hypothesis to make Chris more sympathetic. I’d still direct you to the original New Yorker piece, derived straight from the prime-source investigators— not some “famed author” seeking to…

He was only eating the damn stuff because he ran out of other food and was unable to actually find any on his own because he lacked the skills and gear - which is why you dont read about lots of Alaskans back in the day dying the same way. He was uniquely unprepared, selfish and stupid.

Fuck that. Read the damn book and do some homework - Mccandless was a dipshit who walked into an unforgiving environment with nothing but a .22, some rice and a ‘spirit of adventure’. He was stupid and died because of it, and the damn book made him so sympathetic - and it discussed his lack of preparedness - that other…

If you’re somehow equating “Child not wearing helmet while riding bicycle” to “Going unprepared into the Alaskan wild”, that’s probably why you don’t get it.

A Native Alaskan (Dena’ina) once told me, “Adventure is just poor planning.” 

Every local I know was celebrating the prompt removal of the Super Duper Fun Time Shit Bus last week. The powers that be didn’t even waste time on some nonsense public comment period, they just came in and hoisted the fucker out like they should have the first time someone died trying to get to it. The money wasted…

Haha, you’re joking right? It was a long slow suicide. There’s nothing admirable about going into the woods completely unprepared for survival.

pro tip: if you plan to live the hunter gatherer life in the wilderness, first, learn how and what to hunt, second, learn how and what to gather, third, have at least a modicum of experience with basic camping skills.

I just don’t get the idolization of McCandless by some people. This guy went to the woods to die, not to live. What he did is exactly the same as somebody going to the California shore determined to swim to China and dying a few hours later when they get tired and drown. When he refused the advice of the last guy that…

Though his demise was tragic, many have seen McCandless as a contemporary transcendentalist in the vein of Emerson and Thoreau. 

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