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THE MOBILE AGE, PART 2: GlobalismPeople have always been mobile, but now we’re mobile in new ways, challenging traditional ideas of home and community. In his first essay, Timothy Taylor introduced us to the four mobility archetypes of the modern era: the nomad, the settler, the refugee and the prisoner. This month, he brings his ideas to you, right now. This second. Fasten your seat belts. I move around a fair bit with my work. And while I love encountering new places and, especially, meeting the people who make up those places and have been shaped by them in turn, I can’t deny that I generally also dislike leaving home. As a result, my attitude toward travel is occasionally conflicted. Indeed, it often gives rise to moments of inner turbulence. On one level, this is the joint cultural inheritance I received from my parents. I’m the product of a mother and a father who had very different modern-era experiences of mobility, and who then adapted to these experiences with equivalently different survival techniques.
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