Humanity has spent the vast majority of its time on planet Earth as a nomadic species. Sedentary civilisations are a new construct, relatively speaking. For 99% of our existence we have roamed the steppe, living off the land. Agriculture was the great invention that allowed people to stay in one place, to literally and metaphorically put down roots.
Why, then, do we experience such profound and desperate longing for home when we are away? Should being away not be the natural state of existence for us? Perhaps the answer lies with the Seattle Mariners.
This season, at home, the Mariners have been a force of nature, nigh untouchable.