Brown Motion

Today more than ever people are mobile. Also ideas and goods and services travel rapidly from one part of the planet to another. What might have been impossible 100 years ago - very insignificant in geological time - has become amazingly simplified today. What this all leads to is the idea that one is not bound to their roots so to speak. In fact the whole notion of dwelling on the roots (no pun) seems outmoded. One does not have to be bound. To bound or not is upto the boundee. This is where I will introduce the concept of 'Loyalty'. I mean a fancy way of describing any affiliation and longer term interest is the act of being loyal. You can imagine a situation where one is loyal to their family, friends, country of birth, alma mater et al. At the same time that notion has become inherently weakened by the availability of choices and the ability to parse through reams of information to determine the most optimal situation for any person by the minute. Short term le...