The Nomad

Modern man becomes a nomad, like his ancestors. Traveling with the herds of steaks and hot dogs across the continent, based on the season, back and forth like ocean waves under the tug and pull of the tide. Then came the learning of roots and forage, man becoming stationary tending vegetables. In some time, with stable employment at one of many multinational corporations, man himself becomes a vegetable at a desk, tending a garden of paperwork. Paperwork is converted to paper-leisure the end of each week; traded for some life experience or at one of the countless plastic gardens, plastic petals peeled to reveal rich sugars and fats. This is a time of plenty and stability. In little more time, man becomes interchangeable thanks to the machines which are also interchangeable. Employment becomes a stopover, a job; where one could suffice, man may now hold several over a lifetime. The herds of steaks and hot dogs replaced by the promises of money and meaning and a lower cost of living, man travels, and those who cannot travel or adapt slowly vanish. Thus man is again a nomad.