I am as different from Cadillac Man as I am from Alex Honnold. Is nostalgie de la boue the right term to apply to Cadillac Man's yearnings? Or is that too harsh?

One often hears the claim that it is hard to get the homeless off the streets because they don't like the curfews imposed at shelters, nor do they like their access to street drugs constrained. But it seems that for Cadillac Man, he really just likes a minimalist, nomadic, contingent existence.

How many men and women among us leading conventional lives have a similar aspirational profile?