29 March 2010

in the present

Alas, the great Wikipedia has come to the rescue, yet again, to help define words and phrases that inevitably are used to describe grand things such as, the self. Upon internal investigation, nomad was the word I could use as a logical self-description in the present.

Nomad:

“Communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world.


There are three kinds of nomads:


"hunter-gatherers" moving between hunting grounds,
"pastoral nomads" moving between pastures, and
"peripatetic nomads" moving between customers.

Nomadic hunter-gatherers have by far the longest-lived subsistence method in human history.”

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