I’m quite enjoying this low-profile, under-the-radar-living thread. I started to think about the ways that low-profile lives are monitored and restricted. Here’s a few:
1. Packing-plastic.
You need to have a credit card, even when you don’t need one. When travelling in the UK/Australia anyway, almost any accomodation requires a credit card. Even when you turn up [...]
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4 Secrets of A Surveillance Society: The Power of Inconvenience
How To Live Under-the-Radar
Over at Code Name Insight, there have been a couple of interesting posts recently (see links here and here) about how to live a ‘low profile’ life, below the government’s or other authorities’ radars.
This is pretty radical stuff, if it’s something you’re setting out to do. And quite honestly, if that is something you want [...]
Do We Really Live In The Land Of The Free?
We’re lucky, we live in the land of the free. Or do we?
Freedom of expression, freedom of speech are fundamentals of Western society. But since I started this blog, I’ve found myself reluctant to give away too much about myself that could identify me to the casual reader. Partly this has been about retaining a [...]
Do You Learn More After ‘The Big Trip’, Than During It?
I read a lot of blogs where people are gearing themselves for their first big trip, to ditch the routines and expectations of ordinary unfulfilling lives and Go Travelling. And I also follow a lot of blogs where people are out there, right now, doing it, living their dream (I’m a wee tad envious of [...]
Why I Love The Hippy Lifestyle
The heat in the Northern Territory makes me hot and bothered. Irritable, lazy, nippy. A signpost suggests a range of walks in the Kakadu National Park, all between 1km and 3km, and I drag my heels and if given the chance opt not to bother. In this heat, even 1.8km is too far…!
The mozzies infest [...]
How I Found Freedom In Japan
One of the most liberated years of my life was a year spent teaching English in rural Japan. It wasn’t an easy year. I had both euphoric highs and some of my most desperate lows ever.
So why such liberation?
I believe it came down to finding myself outside the usual social pressures to conform.
Japan might [...]
