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So revisiting the CrimethInc decision to expel traveler kids.  They seemed to had good reasons for doing so.  However, another interpretation I'm working with is that itinerant ways of life offer something that might be more interesting had they attempted to connect it to the (pre-)historic movement of people away from sedentary ways of life.  

Today, indigenous cultures that decided against sedentary ways of life attempt to keep their culture through living on the road.  While not quite the same as being a gatherer-hunter, these ways of life have existed before history and have on occasion sprouted up through history.  There are individual attempts at traveling as a way of life, but they don't hold the same emphasis as a cross generational attempt at living, which may be a desirable approach.

What these old cultures hold that individual traveling doesn't is ties to spirituality and finding ways to co-exist with dominant cultures.  Other than foraging and pastoralism, nomads (as they have at times been called) have taken on skills and trades that could be done while on the road.  Other traveler cultures, like carnys, exist because of a specific trade, the carnival/circus way of life.

What could be learned from these ways of life that might help create an anarchist traveler culture that is less of a youth phenomenon and/or individual expression and potentially become a cross generational resistance culture?
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Yes to your speculation and yes to their "decision". I'll say more later...
how does one answer this question without projecting our own values onto "CrimethInc"
i wasn't paying enough attention at the time they made this decision, and i sort of agree with jingles that it's a weird way to ask a question, but i will comment that that decision seems to have marked a transition for them towards leftism (in act, if not in rhetoric). seems like that was when they started being more apologetic about identity arguments and accusations, as well as being more activist.

but i don't have a ton to back this up, so maybe someone who knows more about the trajectory of CInc would correct/clarify.
interesting, dot. i was not aware of whatever expulsion is being referred to, but i was surely aware of their subtle (and often not so subtle) turn leftward. are there any decent (and relatively concise) writings online that describe the situation referred to in the question?

thanks for making me look that up for myself.

https://crimethinc.com/2002/07/22/all-traveler-kidspurged-from-crimethinc-membership

the expulsion, i find, is actually a joke--a poke at the simplistic criticism they got for evasion.

although it seems like the real question hpwombat's asking doesn't have anything to do with crimethinc and is about nomadism as a challenge to the current world. a far more interesting question... but one that's hard to philosophize on. there have certainly always been people who traveled, the roma/etc, and hobos to name two groups of note, fwtw.

"about nomadism as a challenge to the current world. a far more interesting question"

agreed!

thanks for looking, anyways.

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