Surely we must all realize that travelling light is not a modern concept. It's been done for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, millions of years. Perhaps travelling unneccessarily heavy while travelling unneccessarily is somewhat more modern concept, but I doubt that also. Surely it all just keeps getting re-invented over and over, but that's just marketing. There's nothing new under the sun.

From Stone to Steel
- E.J. Pratt

From stone to bronze, from bronze to steel
Along the road-dust of the sun,
Two revolutions of the wheel
From Java to Geneva run.

The snarl Neanderthal is worn
Close to the smiling Aryan lips,
The civil polish of the horn
Gleams from our praying finger tips.

The evolution of desire
Has but matured a toxic wine,
Drunk long before its heady fire
Reddened Euphrates or the Rhine.

Between the temple and the cave
The boundary lies tissue thin:
The yearlings still the altars crave
As satisfaction for a sin.

The road goes up, the road goes down -
Let Java or Geneva be -
But whether to the cross or crown,
The path lies through Gethsemane.