Just Two Kinds of People in the World

[supergee]

Here’s an interesting distinction: Somewheres vs. Anywheres. Somewheres are loyal to their place of origin; Anywheres have other identifications.

By ancestry I’m what Steve Bannon might call a rootless cosmopolitan, and when we Jews got our own Somewhere, it didn’t matter much to me, though I’m glad it’s there for them as wants it. Forty years ago, I joined the Anywhere tribe known as Fandom, and since then I’ve had neighbors all over the world.

Rooted is what vegetables are; grounded is what gets you killed when lightning strikes. I’m an Anywhere

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Huh. As an armed services brat, I'm an Anywhere by definition, even though I've been in the same place for *gasp* 20+ years; but I have to confess that not even literature got me to "understand" rootedness.

(Yes, I am a believer in stability, and no, I am not tribal.)