Are digital nomads TRAITORS?
Channel: Bevry Podcast
Date: 2020-09-07

Today we are joined by Piotrek Bodera to evaluate the theme: Are digital nomads traitors to their homelands and their mother culture?

Piotrek's companion discussion on his Nerd on Tour podcast, focusing on the practicalities of digital nomadism
https://nerdontour.net/ben/

## ABSTRACT ##

- What is a culture?
- What is a civilisation?
- What causes cultures and civilisations to fall or to sustain?
- Are digital nomads traitors to their homelands?
- Do the locals actually want digital nomads there?
- Why be a digital nomad?
- Why not be a digital nomad?

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## SHOW GUESTS ##

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## TIMESTAMPS ##

00:00 Introduction & overview
02:00 What is a digital nomad?
06:25 How are they different than backpackers?
07:10 What is culture? What is civilisation?
17:40 Hero's Journey is the solution to Authoritarianism
22:07 Where does digital nomadism fit in?
40:08 Trade is a long-term game
52:30 What can the digital nomad do?
1:10:00 Privilege is contextual
1:14:20 Internationalism is cultural selection
1:20:12 Home country brain drain
1:24:55 Are digital nomads traitors to their homelands?
1:36:00 Conclusion

## SHOW NOTES ##

Episode Discussion
https://discuss.bevry.me/t/2020-09-07-culture-with-piotrek-of-nerd-on-tour/1039?u=balupton

Episode Agenda
https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/bevry-nerdontour--A7A_t4W2vxQY9DaUVlRuweOlAQ-LyGlVUk7APgPycJOAdIvE

Tim Cope / On The Trail of Genghis Khan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cope
https://timcopejourneys.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2027949/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286667-on-the-trail-of-genghis-khan

Fall of Civilisations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization#Fall_of_civilizations

Peter Turchin's First Paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVOaPMRBfM

Peter Turchin's Second Paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1V-ZDy5OQ

Feliks Koneczny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliks_Koneczny

Indonesia's Political Killings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Look_of_Silence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

State of Siege
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070959/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency

Benjamin's Research on Civilisation Contests
https://twitter.com/balupton/status/1298935421628375041
https://twitter.com/balupton/status/1297425965514018816
https://threader.app/thread/1298138520096083968
https://threader.app/thread/1298140027747094528
https://threader.app/thread/1298645537302835201
https://threader.app/thread/1298933699975639041
https://threader.app/thread/1299018345820205057
https://threader.app/thread/1299015172606947328
https://threader.app/thread/1298987443027288066
https://threader.app/thread/1298122172804657152

The Hero's Journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

Romeo and Juliet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/

The Lion King & Analysis
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLiKMUiyTI
https://discuss.bevry.me/t/personality-lecture-7/54?u=balupton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pbJTqv2hw
https://discuss.bevry.me/t/personality-lecture-8/55?u=balupton

Sex Slavery Tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCmUL55uek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8GLhJv6ck

The Isle (2010) (referenced around 21 minutes)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255589/

Broken Window Economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Not Today
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564870/

Slumdog Millionaire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/

Theeb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theeb

Ben's Travel Tips
http://notes.balupton.com/travel/
https://discuss.bevry.me/c/digital-nomads/42

Gentrification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

George Ayittey: The Failure of African Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9SFIxC0w-Y

Veganism must be contextual
http://medium.com/p/c60913a8ca5b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeTdgpnAZxY

Internationalism
https://discuss.bevry.me/t/2020-08-10-borderless-2019/1036?u=balupton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGo79dpse_w

Paris Syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

Indonesia Papua Conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_conflict

The Hatchery Place
https://thehatcheryplace.com

Discussion with Taps, another Digital Nomad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasi5NjUgSo