"Van Life" or White Flight

The Fall of the USA

“Van Life” or “camper life” is a popular escapist fantasy among white people of all ages, and understandably so. It signals the return to the white ancestors’ way of life, the pastoralist Yamnaya, who used to roam the grassy planes of the Pontic Steppe, riding their wagons pulled by cattle, or in warrior carts pulled by horses—just like the early Europe…