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On this classic episode of Liberty Under Attack Radio from Feb./March 2018, Kyle Rearden joins me again to discuss another element crucial to building Second Realms: Hakim Bey’s concepts of temporary and permanent autonomous zones. The terms are simple enough to understand, but it’s worth taking a deeper look at these two powerful paths to personal freedom.

We begin by introducing the concepts/defining our terms, we read/discuss important sections, and spend the remainder of the show going down TAZ rabbit holes/lines of thought. View the show guide below for more information.
Show Guide:
- TAZ PORTION
- Introducing the concepts, examples of lifestyles, and differences
- Rojava a PAZ?
- The TAZ and the Second Realm
- The TAZ as a festival/carnival
- The left and their reasons for alternative lifestyles (van nomadism, tiny house, frugality)
- The trend toward peer-to-peer/decentralization
- The Net and The Web — the early Internet and it’s role in TAZs
- Using the Internet to coordinate TAZ’s/PAZ’s
- Gone to Croatan/Gone Native — abandoning the servile society for the Second Realm
- The TAZ as a peaceful solution
- Exchanging information as the foundation of the TAZ
- Psychological liberation and psychic nomadism
- Digital TAZ’s
- PAZ PORTION
- You’ll know it’s a PAZ when you see it
- PAZ Access — freedom of association/disassociation
- Alternative and underground economies/linking ethical enclaves
- The PAZ as a node for self-liberators
- Utopia NOW! despite the risk
- J. Neil Schulman’s comment on Kyle’s mirroring of the TAZ article (re: vonu, agorism, TAZ’s, Konkin)
- Overall takeaways on the strategies
- Grown up libertarianism comes down to defending property rights with guns
Show Notes (from original episode):
Temporary Autonomous Zones Article
Permanent Autonomous Zones Article
Hakim Bey’s Wikipedia
“Grown-up” Libertarianism Quote
The Vonu Podcast
A Lodging of Wayfaring Men [Excerpt with Link to Book]
The Second Realm: Book on Strategy [Book]
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