A few days ago, I said:
We need a new creed, that of the knowledge nomad who cares much more about what you know and what you do than who you are.
‘Who you are’, in the public sense, depends on the accident of your parentage and birth. I didn’t choose to be Sebiestor from the beginning, though now I embrace it. Amarrian, Gallente, Caldari, Minmatar: these reflect our parents. Not us. And even as we weave our own meanings into the tapestries of our cultures, we redefine them and begin to evolve them to something new. Hopefully something better.
But ‘what you know’ and, even more so, ‘what you do’? We each have a great deal more control over these markers. For capsuleers like us, that holds more true than for any other subset of our species.
Don’t let someone decide for you. Learn what you want to learn. Do what you want to do. Define yourself. And as you do that, you will establish your value in the great marketplace of humanity, where the currency is not ISK or any local coin, but reputation.
The knowledge nomad takes control of her own value and changes her activity, location, and skillset in a way that she believes will evolve her reputation and value in the direction she wants. She is highly mobile, flexible, and adaptable in every sense. You cannot contain or restrain her. The most you can do is convince her.
I am a knowledge nomad. Before I am Minmatar, or Sebiestor, or a woman, I am that. I choose to define myself that way, both in words here as well as in deeds and how I live my life. Many more like me exist, and we will band together to shape New Eden in our image.
Static nations and corrupt power centers represent the past. Fluid, self-organizing, ad hoc networks of free beings represent the future. Right now, we capsuleers represent the phase change on the slippery interface between the two we call the present.
And the nations will never understand.
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