Most countries treat tourists better than citizens.
As a permanent tourist you can usually live and travel in better style and for less money than it costs to remain where you are. You can also chose to enjoy places that encourage the life style you have always wanted to live.
As a PT, a Perpetual tourist, you can run your own life. Using freedom tools such as three flag theory you can put a significant distance between yourself and bureaucrats that want to determine what is best for you.
Start today on the path to owning yourself.
Enjoy this fine flash presentation of the attitude needed to move forward in personal freedom.
As a sovereign individual PT can mean anything you want:
Permanent Traveler
Perpetual Tourist
Prior Taxpayer
Possibility Thinker
Paper Tripper
Personal Truth
Post Tyranny
Permanent Tourist
Perpetual Traveler
Privacy Tactician
Perception Transformed
Preparing for Tomorrow
The Bully
consider a third choice
Do you remember that big kid grabbing a small toy you were enjoying and holding it behind his back? He then put both hands behind his back and said "guess which hand it's in, right or left, and you can have it back."
Both of you knew it didn't matter which hand you chose - he would keep your toy in one hand behind his back - and show the now empty hand you had picked.
It's happening again.
Governments around the world have snatched your freedom and are saying "guess which political party will provide liberty and safety to your land, right or left, and you can be free of stealing, intrusive, arrogant government."
Pick your hand or party -
it will be empty.
"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." - Colin Wilson
Don't let yourself be an average cow. Don't let the limits of what you have been taught, and the experiences you were allowed, constrain your perceptions.
"The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side." - Theodore J. Forstmann
The leaders of your country of birth claim to own you. They treat you as their cow; to be herded, branded, milked, and slaughtered as it pleases them. All governments must take more than they can give.
You can avoid the bullies.
You can own you own life.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." - Thomas Jefferson; author of the Declaration Of Independence, third president of the United States
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
books are an important freedom resource
Even a pack rat has two exits from its nest. - Louis L'Amour
Research the ideas and foundations of PT, the modern personal liberty movement.
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." -Eric Hoffer
Recommend are e-book downloads of a collection centered on Dr. W.G. Hill's classic P.T. -- The Permanent Tourist. The following are also excellent reads to help discover your personal PT lifestyle.
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
An interesting look at what may be next for the Ne more...2 points
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne
"No matter what happens, you're smarter than more...2 points
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey by Ken Schoolland
Great for kids or adults.1 point
Bulletproof Privacy: How to Live Hidden, Happy and Free! by Boston T. Party
A good book on the basics of reclaiming your priva more...1 point
How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition) by J.J. Luna
More current than Boston T. Party's "Bulletpr more...1 point
The Zurich Axioms by M Gunther
As a PT you will probably need a business that mov more...0 points
Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution by Claire Wolfe
Humorously Hard-hitting - this is a good read to g more...0 points
New Barbarian Manifesto by Ian Angell
Scholarly work on future society; not Pollyanna bu more...0 points
Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary by Danielle Babb
Got degrees? Traveling and teaching online are a n more...0 points
The Rapture Of Maturity: A Legacy Of Lifelong Learning by Charles D. Hayes
Rapture is the reward of living authentically and more...0 points
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire
Experience freedom by creating your own PT life.
"No great man of letters is absorbed by the stream in which he swims." - Chaim Potok
There are many ways to find a bit of freedom in this slavery prone world. Preparing a back door exit would be wise. You can PT part time, or just understand the principles so as to be ready in a crises.
There is a growing cadre of expatriates or expats from every nation. Some are just employees that are stationed outside their home country. Others have gone native and found a new home. Many however, are discovering greater freedoms and opportunities as Perpetual Tourists and are pursuing their personal sovereignty.
Wise countries are courting these individualists, realizing the productivity and creativity they infuse into the societies where they live. Tax incentives, economic citizenship, and improved communications infrastructure are some of the inducements being offered.
Expect the competition between countries for expat attention to expand as more netrepreneurs and knowledge workers (the netcohort) go P.T. Also expect a backlash of resentment from over regulated, highly taxed, repressive regimes suffering from "brain drain."
As a sovereign individual you decide your priorities. You can even support your country of choice if you wish; there was no virtue in your forced allegiance. "The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cat's teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi
You have the capability to prosper, but you will have to rediscover how to enjoy learning and creating. There are many degrees of freedom, and some people hate freedom simply because it requires personal responsibility. Your life can have meaning, but you might have to free yourself to find it.
It will take effort to become a Permanent Traveler and it will take work to maintain your new PT lifestyle. You will still have to interact with other sovereignties once you start as a perpetual tourist -- but the advantage can now be yours.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling
The option is to do nothing and let others make life choices for you. That way is not only hard, it is humiliating and dangerous. Governments are not benign and they are not looking out for your best interests.
George said it better than I can -- "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Is your current government your servant or your master?
Tip A Bureaucrat For Liberty
as fun as cow tipping and tractor tipping, but with greater purpose
Think independently of local cultural ideals and you can free yourself of coercive external influences. Liberty is first created and sustained on a personal level - create a bit more in your own life - then spread it and help others.The more sharing in freedom, the more secure our own freedoms become.
One tool for increasing personal liberty and improving your own life is to start a technology based business. Find an area that is poorly served by bureaucracies and develop a natural enterprise to provide a better choice. Both you and others will benefit from your efforts.
As a PT your technology based business can provide a source of income located on the internet, allowing you to move about as you wish.
"The risks and the rewards from creative enterprise are greater, and of far more value to society, than illusions of security and belonging that enslave human cogs in social machines. - Allan R. Wallace
Todays task - find a collectivist bureaucracy and take a bit of its air - speeding up its deflation. Use technology and your creativity to provide a better solution to just one need they currently serve poorly.
With Bastiat Free University we are creating a college level learning experience for visionaries and entrepreneurs. It will not happen quickly, but if you listen carefully you can hear a bit of air being released from over-inflated educational bureaucracies.
The historical trends give us a back wind. The ending of the industrial age will decrease economies of scale that rewarded huge organizational size. Technology empowered individuals will shape the future.
When you decide to own your own life your first step is that desire to be free. You then must turn a critical eye toward those that claim your allegiance. Ask yourself - "Am I more dedicated to them than they are to me?"
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche
If something evil is starting to fall - it should be tipped. Instead of remaining an owned cow based on the accident of your birth location you can do a bit of bureaucrat tipping instead.
As a PT -- shape your own future!
We are witnessing the death throes of bureaucracies.
A humorous video about disintermediation - whatever that is
The needs of the individual were pushed aside as the needs of greater society were addressed.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
The liberties of free market empowerment eliminated plague and famine in much of the world. Sadly open societies are once again becoming closed and less individualistic as the crumbling dynasties of the industrial age seek to maintain their power.
"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating." - C. F. Bastiat
Governments have become dangerous leviathans on a blind rampage as their strength diminishes. Their denial of already inflicted mortal wounds causes them to seek greater power to perpetuate their privileges.
Of paramount importance to your future is not the history or the acclimations of virtue proclaimed by your current residence. What matters is the direction of state control as demonstrated by their actions.
"Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private." - Lyndon B. Johnson
It is a time to be cautious and to prepare emergency plans.
For now enjoy the much lighter "Twilight Zone" tone of this short video.
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Day of the Longtail
Movie Trailer: In celebration of the publication of Chris Anderson's book, "The Long Tail," The old world of media faces an invasion from another planet. The horror. The horror. (By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum)
Runtime: 2:13
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Select a city or country you think may value your preferred life style
Discover your own Personally Tested and Personally Tasted lifestyle.
Start by picking your time and place - start exploring new cultures; enjoy discovering the many joys of a new location.
Study abroad and learn to appreciate other's life styles. There are huge variations between cultures; no one can consider themselves well educated until they start sampling and appreciating the differences.
You may not find a place that suits you better, but don't you want to know if such a place exists?
In some cultures elders are esteemed for the wisdom they have hopefully acquired - in others they are dropped off in "managed care facilities" and ignored. Where would you prefer to retire?
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." - Lord Chesterfield
I'll start you with Amsterdam, adjust on the Orbitz site as you wish. Perhaps just change to the first city that comes to mind.
Still undecided? Decide what type of clothes you would like to wear, then go to where the clothes fit the location.
enjoy
I'd like to hear what you have to say.
Your freedom will keep decreasing unless you expend effort to expand it.
If you like to drive fast - go to a country without speed limits. If the 1960's life style sounds good - move to Amsterdam.
Somewhere in the world what you value is not against the law, in fact it may make you a hero.
Like medieval serfs most people will live and die within a stones throw of where they were born. Imagine never wanting to discover if there is a much better life for you and yours just over the next hill.
Even if you are in the best place for you, wouldn't you like to know by having knowledgeably eliminated other choices?
Live your own life.
Where would you like to explore and discover first? It's time for your road trip!
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WesJefferson
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Just back from Barbados. Wanted to relocate there forever after being there 5 minutes! Yikes, what a wonderful place. Highly recommended.
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Rokusan
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BartonMurray
This is a very enlightening page filled with ideas that I like. My mind will never shrink back to its original size now that I have read this.Thanks. Posted August 23, 2007 |
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This is the lens I've been waiting for, I'll be using this as a resource. 10 stars!!Ron Paul Posted August 04, 2007 |
The BFU Journal
Documenting the creation of a new type of college. Not only for perpetual tourists; but for anyone wanting to think, not just follow.
If your freedom is important, you will want to consider all the implications involved.
A sample:
Perhaps the twined concepts of starting your own business and picking up knowledge as needed through BFU and other valuable resources is a bit too informal for you.
I would ask you to consider where you acquired your appreciation of formal education. Those years you spent feeding at the required public trough were offered with a purpose.
You have been intellectually fattened to remove any potential for strenuous individual mental activity. It will never be considered valuable to any bureaucracy, such as the schools you were forced to endure, to allow consideration that you might exist just fine without its coercive ministrations.
If what government approved institutions offer is truly valuable to any but themselves, would they make laws forcing it upon us and have to steal from our paychecks to support it? Would they so bend society as to create flaccid axioms intoning the value they offer, all tied to "success." Would they provide student loans and other inducements to trade in your freedoms for promises of an ersatz life of herd like conspicuous consumption?
Ah, but I have made you uncomfortable. Ignore the previous and rejoin the corpulent herd; your hungry shepherds, the wolves, miss your compliance within their rituals.
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