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Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy

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Is There a Difference Between Being Home and Being a Father?

In the Bible, Cain is sort of condemned after the fall to live a life of wandering. Cal, on the other hand, goes away not to exile himself, but to find out what his ambitions are in life. The great contradiction in the world today is just that all cell phones have cobalt in them and very little of it is mined ethically. Most of the stuff you buy at a big box store of Walmart or Namar Stemosaur is made in China.

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