Being a voluntary serial nomad

 Being a voluntary serial nomad-Spiritual Quest

(Before the notice of the involuntary economic nomads of 'Nomadland')

From August 1994 until November '99 I took advantage of the opportunity of having only myself to support to be a a nomad, 'the expression of my soul'. I did for aesthetic bias what the characters in the promotional previews for 'Nomadland' seem to be doing out of economic necessity. My tactics and strategies while being that nomad were similar to those in the movie: taking temporary, part-time gigs and off-shift jobs. My aesthetic bias, I think and believe was (and still is) a realization that the structure, as well as the availability, for work was a soul and dignity degrading experience. The adaptation and psychological accommodations, which I and others were obliged/extorted to do to 'make a living', undermined what I see as a celebration of this existence's life. 

Much as the verse in Genesis 3:17-19 when Adam-n-Eve were expelled from Eden:          "...¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." that has been the rationale for the consensus of our work labors.

Like these latter-day 'Nomadland'-folks, in '94 there were gigs-jobs and temporary work for those with the capability or ready-skills to do them. For many, only a driver's license was required. Others, past education-informal, as well as formal-could get you a job.

In ways much like the migrating hunter-gatherers of the pre-neolithic times of settlements and the First Nation-Native Plains 'Americans', I and the cinema depicted nomads used the mobility we had to find better 'hunting and gathering' settings for ourselves as we 'lived off the land'-economy. I see that as an increasingly gestative cultural and societal option.

The economic forces of commoditization with their political enablers whose self-interests favor and are biased to those who can fund their political aspirations, will neglect to destitution those for whom the type of wealth needed to remain established in one place is more and more precarious to being out of reach with each passing year.

It would be ironic that this civilization, much as the classic civilizations, will be brought down by the migrating immigrants of economic necessity, plus the growing cohort of more aesthetic, communal anarchists who come to perceive the present economic order as inherently and inequitably corrupting. At the same time the precepts of the migration-ethos will be the default aesthetic for a more equitably and distributive civilization.

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