Mike Sowden
Opening our borders will solve just about everything
Haha - I love you wrote this, because I've had so many conversations recently around it, and was thinking of writing something up. And now I can just point folk to this newsletter instead! Back of the net. #lazy #badworkethic
But yes, there is so much to discuss and unpack here! One conversation I had was with some travel writers about how travel writing in the rest of the 21st Century will be dominated by themes of migration, and everything in between (ie. seasonality, recreational and otherwise). I've hung out with a lot of travel bloggers and digital nomads of all kinds, and I think I've seen a little of what some of it could look like - for example, a reappraisal of "owning" things, which you shift to either renting them or being part of a chain or collective where that thing gets passed around for the benefit of all. Seems like our idea of ownership, like borders, can become a lot more fluid than it is now, and the world will not break apart...
Within digital nomadism there's a very influential essay by the writer Venkat Rao, which you may find interesting: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-person/ It argues that for some people, stability *is* movement - and it's only when they stop in one place for too long that their lifestyle starts coming apart.
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