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Sovereign Man background image. Graphic: Sovereign Man website
In many ways, Jason Bourne is the ultimate vagabond: he has multiple passports, speaks multiple languages and has no permanent address.
Some PTs, or permanent travelers, are almost like real-life Jason Bournes. Minus the kung-fu skills and the CIA assassins. One case study to read is the Sovereign Man blog, written by Simon Black (not his real name).
The tone of Black’s writing style makes him seem like a darker version of Timothy Ferriss (author of “The Four Hour Workweek”). An avowed anarchist, he rants against taxes, governments, and grassroots activism. Here is a link to Brave New Traveler’s interview with Simon Black.
Some of the unsavory aspects of the PT scene is the focus on tax evasion, offshore banking, and anticipating the fall of governments.
For more nuts-and-bolts info, check out Emergency, by Neil Strauss. Excerpts from the book can be found in this post on Tim Ferriss’s blog: How to Be Jason Bourne.
Do you know anyone who has lived as a PT?
February 19th, 2010 at 3:27 am
Why is that ‘unsavory’? If the Utopian West – the Utopian West that wants to impose its supposedly superior values on the rest of the world – is so confident and superior, why would it care so much if a few ‘oddballs’ want to avoid their bloated welfare states and live in inferior, backwards (their words, not mine) lands? Furthermore, most of the foot soldiers (i.e. the ‘grassroots activists’) in the imposition of Western values around the world via laws and Political Correctness make their living via ‘Foundations’ that in turn get their billion$ from the Gates’s, Buffett’s and Soros’s of the world via tax-free dollars that have no business being tax free if Western governments are so desperate for tax dollars that they need to pick on a few oddballs who aren’t ‘paying their fair share’. The West is in a very difficult situation the next 10 or 20 years and some of us will seek out other places to live – for whatever reason – whether Western elites like it or not.
February 19th, 2010 at 11:05 am
I don’t know anyone who has been living as a permanent traveler, but they’re out there. People are slowly waking up. The West will be a different place in 10 or 20 years. Look at what happened to the IRS building in Texas. It was only a matter of time before something like that happened.
People will choose to live elsewhere or become permanent travelers. They’re fed up with establishments and would rather kick it on a beach than in their own backyard.
February 19th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I subscribe to the newsletter and while some of the advice/perspective is interesting, other parts of it lead me to wonder what the person writing it is actually gaining from it.
June 10th, 2011 at 6:41 am
Borders are often a myth. I lived in several countries without a passport–not smart, but I was pretty young. Trick is, move a lot, make friends by helping people, stay in low-grade ‘hoods where cops aren’t usually welcome, but neither are criminals. LEARN THE LANGUIAGE BEFORE YOU GO. Do not discuss politics of religion (old adage, he who keeps his politics and religion to himself can go anywhere). Look at Bourne in Goa, India. He knew the assassin didn’t fit in with the foreign crowd. Why? He also chose an area of India he understood because that part of India was proselytized since the days of Nebuchadnezzar and later, Thomas the Doubter, and then the Catholic Church, then Church of England. As a Native American, I can fit in most areas of the world. Our motto has always been to adapt, adopt, and survive but still remain our own. Main rules for a free life: Don’t bug the old folks, don’t scare the kids. Both in most cultures are sacred. Always follow local laws. Learn them! If you’re a decadent (a drinker or whoremaster) expect people to be suspicious of you and that leads to police looking for you. Study Bourne, the writer Gilroy is a master at that sort of thing. Learn what he’s like, quiet, calm, respectful and respectable without hurting anyone. He’s trustworthy. Act like him and respectable people will lie, cheat, and steal for you because they’re your broes. Remember he has to remain celibate (no sex or parties) to survive. BTW, rednecks can do all this because we are very human. Peace to you, and luck!