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Bill Clinton went home to this every day and still decided to cheat

It seems that most people take it as a foregone conclusion that a renaissance of tribal nomadism is basically impossible. This is strange to me; how could one have faith in the present-day anthropology, which is extremely abberant and unique, but no faith in a rescusitation of one of the oldest and most proven modes of human life? Insofar as we accept this formulation, we must admit as a matter of principle that human anthropology is TOTALLY flexible, and can change radically and permanently, almost on a dime. This is a fundamentally revolutionary / anti-traditional conception of human anthropology. To the contrary, it does not seem far-fetched to imagine a neo-tribal nomadic future in the Americas. Frankly, if the hippies had dropped their interest in drugs, and had taken a greater interest in firearms and goats -- we were rather close in the 70's. In fact, a lot of the most fearsome biker gangs of our time came out of that era as a direct byproduct. It's not especially hard to imagine this happening again -- but happening in an earnestly multi-generational, tribal-type affair. Between "vanlife," BLM lands, the resurgence of interest in ruminant husbandry, rural depopulation, and widespread discontent with the mainstream amongst the youth, I think one could even quite cogently argue it's inevitable on the long arc of time. Especially in an "en masse AI-induced unemployment" scenario, a lot of people would lose faith in mainstream society entirely, and would drop out. Readily plausible they'd find each other, form bands, have children, vie for territory, and (perhaps) even practice subsistence pastoralism. If it happened, it'd all be a LOT more natural, and much more "trad" than basically anything people are doing today.