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I've read Henry David Thoreau, and he's proven wrong, obviously.

What his writings pine for, and what the reality of the present state IS, are, "obviously", two different things.

His writings aspire to something common to all of us, an unobtainable optimism.

Reality is that the true need of our souls is "hope".

"Hope", that which is borne of tribulation, which begeteth, experience, which begeteth endurance, which begeteth "hope", and "hope maketh not ashamed.

Henry David Thoreau was a humanist, errantly thinking that man, (even though unexpressed directly) could rise above the morass of his fallen nature to a higher utopia of individualism, ergo, the need for minimal government, without any divine intervention.

Inherently missing is the natural state of man to "fear", which by default predisposes him to distance "fear" through an increase of government and "social" programs to alleviate him of said "fear".