Chinggis Reimagined

Someone who has gone far, literally and figuratively, in nomadic searches, is Tim Cope. His book and documentary, "In Search of Genghis Khan", is about as complete of an exploration of the nomadic essence by the settled, Western mindset as it is possible to find.  This bear found that some of the most subtle observations were made deep into the video, and it helped greatly in understanding the extent and behavior of the grassland/horse/man connection among nomadic peoples, something often written about, but hard to get a handle on in the abstract.

Cope rode solo from Mongolia to Hungary through the the steppe, discovering connections between all the various nomadic peoples along the way, as well as how things changed when he arrived in Europe.  If this bear had been a freer spirit twenty years ago, he might have dreamed of such a journey himself.  But all credit goes to Cope for actually living and achieving a difficult and arduous goal. 

Now, Cope's experience is a useful waypoint in orienting the bear toward the future.  Finding a true, authentic, historical nomadic essence of the past is an admirable, but chimerical goal.  And Cope has done the work, so that we don't have to, in some sense.  Instead, we can work on developing a Mongolia of the mind (also discussed in an earlier post) where liberation is possible in a more than material sense, and the Secret Mongols of History can have their say as well. 

Время, вперёд!