TVP #76 [BUILDING THE SECOND REALM #5]: Proxy Merchants – Facilitating Interaction Between The Two Realms

TVP #76 [BUILDING THE SECOND REALM #5]: Proxy Merchants – Facilitating Interaction Between The Two Realms

Back in the 1960s, Rayo came up with the concept of import-export, a form of one-directional isolation wherein a vonuan can maintain access to the servile society’s open-but-not-free trading centers while denying them access to a vonuan’s home base. Reason being, an alternative economy did not yet exist, and therefore,…

TVP #24: Van Nomadism – Modern Gypsies

TVP #24: Van Nomadism – Modern Gypsies

Van nomadism (a.k.a van dwelling) was a popular strategy for vonuans early on and is even quite popular today among folks from different ideological persuasions–a quick YouTube search will garner hundreds if not thousands of results. That is the subject of today’s episode of The Vonu Podcast. Herein, Shane and…

Financial Independence: The Utility of Import-Export

Financial Independence: The Utility of Import-Export

Note: The following is an article by TVP host, Kyle Rearden, published on his blog, The Last Bastille.  “I often encourage folks who are preparedness-minded to develop a second income stream with a home-based business. Once you have that business started, then start another one…[a] successfully recession-proof home-based business is…

TVP #9: A Primer on the Servile Society

TVP #9: A Primer on the Servile Society

On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, Shane and Kyle discuss three concepts Rayo formulated, namely: Servile Society: A servile society could be defined as one that does not respect self-ownership or individual liberty, but rather heralds the supremacy of government and authority; in other words, it upholds the collective…

A Servile Society: The Value of Import-Export

A Servile Society: The Value of Import-Export

Note: The following is an article by TVP host, Kyle Rearden, published on his blog, The Last Bastille.  “The spectacle is the ruling order’s nonstop discourse about itself, its never-ending monologue of self-praise, its self-portrait at the stage of totalitarian domination of all aspects of life…[t]he spectacle is totally dogmatic,…