What does /lit/ think about Chris McCandless? Was he a hero who

I've read Into The Wild. The author had to make half the shit up just to make McCandless not look like a total loser.

Idiot child. Should have just been a male model and eventually coked himself to death instead

Like Grizzly Man, he's a loser lauded by bored suburbanites who wish desperately that their lives had a modicum of challenge and danger.

>>9382521
he had fucked up family that left him feeling empty; and he sought to fill that void of meaning in the outdoors. but he was not prepared for what he was doing and it ended up killing him. i think he deserves pity but was not a hero per se.

>>9382531
What did he make up?

>>9382521
He was a dumb hipster before hipsters were a thing, but now he's worshiped by hipsters.

Tolstoy would have liked him for his idealism.