Jackson for Jesse, maybe. And perhaps an allusion to Thoreau, who pretended to be getting back to nature by camping out in the woods a half mile down the tracks from Concord.
Pretentious leftist twit who's not using his birth name, I'd guess.
If his parents are as far out there as he is, I'm betting that is his birth name.
You know the old saying, "The nut doesn't fall far from the tree," and all that.