Walden on Wheels

Oy vey, with the student loan whining already! I'm sympathetic to the cause - throwing people barely out of their teens under mountains of debt to get a college degree - but the cause is certainly more complicated and nuanced than Ilgunas portrays it. He concedes at the end of his book that his education was worth the debt, but this resolution may come too late for those who tired of his arguement by the third chapter. He still sounds like what he is - a young man with a good education who wishes everyone could simply follow their dreams and learn the lessons of simplicity. Noble, to be sure, and much easier to accomplish without the baggage of worries like health insurance, a spouse, or children. Also, I would like to point out that Ilgunas was incredibly lonely living in his van and that not many can handle the monastic, nomadic life (see: spouse, children).