As I got it off track, back on.

Isn't the idea that we should be prepared to be nomadic with the stuff that we are capable of moving? But as prepared as we might be to do that, shouldn't we seek to become stable and set up a new home for ourselves, for as long as it needed?

Being nomadic makes sense if you are moving on to use resources in a new area, after they are no longer available in a former location. If you need to follow the herds of bison, or any food, or better weather, than you need to do it.

But don't most of us we have homes that are solid, good shelters and not capable of moving. Don't most of us have more clothes than we can carry, nevermind adding food, etc. to it. Isn't the general trend of humanity to set up a permanent residences and become part of a community? If you find all you need to survive in one location, why leave it?

Finally, aren't those who live a nomadic lifestyle people who have learned and been taught how to do so most of their lives? I think if I was asked to return to and live a nomadic life, whether as a reindeer herder in the North, follwoing the herds of bison, or packing it on a camel across the desert, that I would only make it if someone who lived that way already took me and taught me how to live that life.