How can I use "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" by Henry David Thoreau to argue that the materialistic culture is preventing us from truly living...

Chapter
2 of includes considerable material that can be used to support an
argument about the negative effects of materialism. To Thoreau, apprehension of the natural
world is considered authentic, and having few possessions is superior to having many. This
chapter employs theof seeing material objects as unreal, despite their tactile physicality,
while artistic and spiritual things are genuine and authentic.begins with the story of how he
came to live on Hollowells farm without buying it and deems himself a rich man.

I sold him the farm for just what I gave for it, and, as he was not
a rich man, made him a present of ten dollars, and still had my ten cents, and seeds, and
materials for a wheelbarrow left. I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to
my poverty.

When Thoreau goes to live at Walden, in his
small cabin, he finds each morning an invitation to make my life of equal simplicity to that
of a shepherd with his flock....