From Scarcity to Resilience Within

A consumerist system creates a belief in the “scarcity within,” the belief that we need material goods to invoke the imagination, that we are incapable of constructing our own lives out of whatever we have at our disposal, that only others can provide us with the things needed to live. We learn that lifestyle is something to be bought, not created. Over time this belief can cause depression and a lack of meaning.

Members of the Wander Society adopt a self-sufficient mentality and a belief in the “resiliency within.” Wanderers believe in the ability to exist and flourish wherever they are, using what they have. They use only what they need, nothing more (they do not understand the concept of excess, because that is a societal construct).

Keri Smith, The Wander Society p 76