[Note: The following is another article by Kyle Rearden, reposted here in audio and video format. This episode is on the ever-important topic of financial independence (F.I.), this dependence being the main tool of coercion & compliance in the First Realm, the servile society. While the best time to strive…
Tag: Import-Export
On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, we revisit the concept of mean-time to harassment, Rayo’s proposed metric for gauging the efficacy of a given vonu lifestyle/activity level. Put another way, it’s a measure of the time between interactions with coercers. This reexamination will also feature Kyle Rearden’s article published…
[Note: The following is an article by Kyle Rearden, originally published here on the TVP website back in February 2017. I revisited it within the past few days, and thought it was another one worthy of re-publication in podcast and video format. I hope you find it of value —…
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,…
On this previously live episode of The Vonu Podcast, Jason Boothe and I are joined by Jeremy Henggeler and Fenix Aurora, two individuals who have decided to pursue van nomadism. We’ll talk to Jeremy and Fenix about their adventures, struggles, their custom application of vonu, and much more! My book is…
It’s finally here–VONULIFE, March 1973! This lengthy, highly informative publication is over 75,000 words (TWICE the length of Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom), and contains ~35 articles, about 15 or so of them BRAND NEW to us from Rayo. It even includes a foreword by yours truly (Shane) and…
On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, Jason Boothe and I examine another interesting series of articles from the new batch of publications; this one being the newly published Ocean Freedom Notes. Ocean Freedom Notes, 1984-1990 Specifically, we cover: Islands of South Chile — An Untamed Frontier by Jim Stumm…
An invulnerable vonu home base (or shelter) is a crucial first step in pursuing vonuence. This home base can be permanently or temporarily fixed and could include a polyethylene A-tent, a sailboat, a van/RV, a tiny house, etc. While you are building up your nest egg, you will likely be…
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…
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…
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…
Note: The following is an article by TVP host, Kyle Rearden, published on his blog, The Last Bastille. Know thyself. Know thy adversary. Adopt and adapt their strategies – not to dominate them, but to keep yourself free. Do everything possible to postpone any sweeping countermoves your adversary may attempt…
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,…