It reminded me a lot of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'. The parts about having one's life stolen by the people who demand one's attention rang true, but he didn't really explore that to my satisfaction. There were a lot of references to Roman stuff that went overy head, but I still feel like I got the gist. It ended kind of abruptly, and in general flowed kind of weird. Reads like a rough draft