There's blessing in movement

The title is an egyptian Idiom (fel haraka baraka) which means there's is blessing in movement and by blessing it means bounty and benefits. which I thought would be really fitting of this reading http://www.critical-art.net/books/ted/ted2.pdf about nomadic power.

what the writers talk about here is how being a nomad and having no dependence on roots in one place or another can give you huge cultural power. and even though that is true it is not the only way to do it, but I agree that having nomadic properties would defintely give you a huge advantage in whatever you want to do. but the writers only focus on one aspect of nomads and kind of miss the big picture of the true power of nomads.

first I'll start with what they were trying to say, from their point of view the power of the nomad lies within their belonging to the road and nothing else, having no stable roots or location to belong to so that way no one can put them on the defensive, no one can attack them where they sleep or where their kids lie because it is everywhere. that is true a huge amount of nomadic power lies within their ability to up and leave whenever they wish to wherever they wish. where they stop they lay to rest. the writers mentioned the scythians which brought to my mind two other nomadic peoples that met their demise when they gave up their manuverability, the huns of mongolia once they setteled and strechted their empire too far for them to handle without settling down caused them to be kicked back to mongolia from the arab lands, also the hyksos which invaded northern ancient egypt (lower egypt) they were nomadic sheperds, viscous in combat and very fast riders, once they setteled in and started building palaces, ahmose (then pharoh of southern Egypt (upper egypt) ) after discovering the war chariot launched an attack that sent them going back from whence they came, so truly nomads gain their power from being mobile. and that can be turned into modern day society by using the technique of "keeping them guessing" basically being nomadic nowadays is simply being unpredictable enough so that your rivals won't see you coming as well as have the manuverability to be everywhere and anywhere at the same time (like Mcdonald's, I would have said starbucks but that isonly valid within the US starbucks just opened in Egypt last year whereas McDonald's can be found on Every street corner anywhere in the world, Although the taste differs from place to place, for instance in egypt and holland Mcdonald's actually has a taste, in New york city it is acceptable to eat anywhere else in the US it tastes pretty much like Cardboard paper and not actual meat, and I've actually tasted it in these places and I can verify my words).

This is the obvious facet of nomadic power one that non nomads see and think they can make out how to reach success through that nomadic power without even knowing the principles of nomadic life. I can't say I myself fully grasp it but while I was doing a documentary about the sights in the southern sinai desert (like mount sinai where moses got the ten commandments or the different canyons and oases) we spent our nights with nomads all the time, because the only good places to bunk in the desert would be with the nomads (known as the bedouins) those are your stereotypical run of the mill traditional dressing, camel riding, sheep and goat herding arabs, they live in the desert, and rule by the rule of the desert nomads in every aspect of their life even if they have a home base they go to (what the writers called the bunker). I'll stray off for a second to explain the bunker concept, the bunker is like a homebase or an HQ where you can hide and regrop as well as rethink strategy for corporations this would be where the CEO lies, for nomadic tirbes, this is their base camp where the tribal leader lies as well as the women and children. but staying these five nights with the bedouin people got me to know the other facets of their power that lie deep within their society that we are missing in ours.

Being tribal people the tribe lies first before everything (beleive it or not even the government they don't give a rat's behind about anything but their own tribe) the leader's word is the law, and it is always justice that prevails. Culture and tradition are highly respeced and NEVER minsiculed or ignored, they are always proud of their culture enforcing it and always maintaining their traditions (and I'm not talking about having cranberry sauce with turkey at thanksgiving I'm talking deeprooted traditions more than hundreds of years old, like weddings that last for weeks with certain rituals inbetween, or rules for vendettas between tribes) it is this unity and respect for culture that grants them the ultimate power. so really to reach ultimate nomadic power I would highly advise one to seek within himself/herself or within their organization find the cultures and traditions that created that organization (or themselves) and also find the unity within that organization that along with keeping people guessing aka being extremely flexible and mobile as well as everywhere and anywhere grants complete nomadic power.