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Home is a box. Ideology is a cage.

If you understand this, you’ve found your place. I’m the Existential Nomad (ᛖᚲᛊᛁᛊᛏᛖᚾᛏᛟᛚ ᚾᛟᛗᚨᛞ), your co-conspirator for this alternate apocalyptic timeline, and The Nomad Files is my dispatch from the blurry edges of a society tearing itself apart.

This is not a space for objective observers—objectivity is the biggest lie the powerful ever sold the powerless. I am a participant. My craft is unapologetically leftist gonzo journalism: anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-authoritarian. Guided by a Nomadic Intuition that draws me to hotspots of despair, my lens is the Gaze of Absurdity, forcing a confrontation with the crushing meaninglessness of power. My notebook is stained with the residue of the struggle.

This publication rejects easy answers, clean heroes, and the moral certainty that rots the soul. Here, we explore the tension between conviction and nuance. We will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

This is a search for meaning in the beautiful, absurd struggle, one story at a time. Subscribe for reports from the front lines.

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