The Nowhere Man
The transcontinental tribe of wanderers is growing, global souls for whom home is everywhere and nowhere. Pico Iyer, one of the privileged homeless, considers the new kind of person being created by a new kind of life
By Pico Iyer
Check it out at http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4639. It took up too much space here:(
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This is superbly written. I recommend it again to all the travelers out there thinking about how constant moves affect you as an activist.
Charlene
"Seasoned experts at dispassion, we are less good at involvement, or
suspensions of disbelief; at, in fact, the abolition of distance. We
are masters of the aerial perspective, but touching down becomes more difficult. Unable to get stirred by the raising of a flag, we are sometimes unable to see how anyone could be stirred...
...yet sometimes I force myself to recall that it is we, in our
floating scepticism, who are the exceptions, that in China or Iran, in Korea or Peru, it is not so strange to give up one's life for a
cause."
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