Today, we call this "mindfulness" or "digital detox." He called it walking into the wilderness and never looking back.
To go "Into the Wild" means to occasionally unplug. To take the unpaved road. To say no to the promotion that will crush your soul. To sit alone in a forest long enough to hear your own thoughts again. To be comfortable with risk. Into the Wild
When Jon Krakauer turned this tragedy into a book, Into the Wild , and Sean Penn later adapted it into a sweeping cinematic eulogy, the story of "Alexander Supertramp" became a cultural Rorschach test. For some, McCandless was a heroic idealist who rejected the chains of materialism. For others, he was a reckless, underprepared fool whose death was a predictable, even selfish, outcome of arrogance. Today, we call this "mindfulness" or "digital detox