Geneology

It was impressive reading the amount of work Whitman put into finding out the origin of his family and surname. I believe he went as far back as english roots on his father side, dating nearly three centuries. What most impressive were the tools he used to find this information, almost none. He referenced an old geneology dictionaryy, but most of the information he acquired must have required serious detective work and investigation.

This kind of brings me shame because given the technology we have today, i can only go as far back as 4 generations, which isnt much, the rest of my family becomes clouded with illegitamate children and wild affairs.

How does geneology correlate with LoG?

Whitmans writings are what i would consider a serious process of molding and manipulation to arrive at the core of LoG. Now this sounds like bullshit(and it might be.) And maybe im just stating my analysis in an awkward fashion, but his LoG is a culmination of his life experiences compressed and broken down into a genuine perspective of what life is and what life has become within are society. He longs to go back to time where loafing in the woods wasn't such a travesty. But most importantly he wants to return and have bring us with him to time when we werent so caught up in the flow of advancing technology and dwindling social interactions.

Whitman would probably die from the smell of all this plastic that encases us and the melt from the LEDs that would blast upon him. More so, he would be disappointed by the lack of social interaction that technology has propogated(sic?)  He wants to go back to a time when we were more one one ourselves and those around us, but i am sure he would want us to take advantage of technology to exploit the power of mass communication to reach others and the deepest parts of ourselves.