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Holden Needs To Be Sent To Wilderness Camp

Over the past few years, I've seen a surge of YouTube influencers make these videos about how they sent their supposedly 'out-of-touch' and insufferable teenage boys to wilderness camps in Nevada or Arizona and they come back transformed, hard-working, humble men ready to make their mark on society. Now while I've never met any of these people, my extensive internet research from questionable sources has gotten me thinking that Holden might benefit from something akin to this. While Holden may not be touched by the debilitating influence of internet fame and social media rut, he needs to unplug from his preppy, toxic environment of upper-middle-class white Northeastern society and reevaluate his life. One thing that stood out to me about Holden was his ability to critically analyze society around him, especially considering that he's been "stuck" his entire life in something akin to a rat race, where everything is about gaining an accomplishment after anot