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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
you obviously have not read the initial article and seen what it is all about. your two linked articles are more about self reliance upon the land, what we here refer to as sustainable living. not trundling about a large metro area with your laptop, keyboard, designer clothes, and trying to figure out where to couchsurf this next night
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My two linked 'articles' were in relation to my own path of digital minimalism (I own less than 100 objects, will never and have never reproduced etc), self-reliance and idling, part of which is the noble tradition of the Flaneur (trundling about as you would put it), and neither are articles but waypoints into the world of the idler and the 'trundler'.
The original article has a direct relation to what I was talking about and has everything to do with a shift away from the mores of the traditional culture - get, posses, own, reproduce etc. You talked about the cowboy way, which in and of itself is a romantic notion of 'trundling' and self-sufficiency that is particularly American in its romanticism (unlike the Gaucho Cowboy tradition of Argentina which is far more community based).