I called him a hipster because that's what they are: bored trust-fund kids who literally are so bored with life they have these sorts of crisis situations where they shun the world they come from. For everyone Chris McCandless there are 1,000 people living in third world "wilds" that would gladly adopt his trust-fund life. Society can suck, but raw nature is a million times more heartless. From what I've read of his last journal entries that's a cold reality that struck him when it was too late. Again, the reason I think he's a douche is because the entire time he had nothing to lose. People put him up on this hippie, nature loving pedestal, when the reality was he knew that at any given moment his parents could swoop to his rescue. That's how he got buy in the Continental U.S. , through the charitable contributions of those that lived and worked in the society that he had so much contempt for. Out in the Alaskan wilderness he didn't last more than three months. Shit gets real, real fast, when you latch off the teat of society.