About
EscapeArtist.com:
A
website that shows you how to restart your life abroad. With thousands
of articles, contacts, resources, links and tools for finding overseas
real estate, international employment, hidden enclaves, artist havens,
unique destinations, offshore investments, and the requirements for living
an international lifestyle. Since 1995, we have been helping escape
artists just like you restart their lives abroad. Over 400,000 escape artists
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Our Philosophy
at Escape Artist is rather straightforward, if anything in our universe
may be said to be straightforward.
Simply put,
we believe that governments and their borders and the concept of government
and borders are obsolete. We humans are only holding on to these concepts
because we have no clear precedent to call forth to guide us. A hundred
years from now this will all be quite apparent ~ we will recognize that
we live on one planet and that the borders were meaningless constructs.
Today, of course this is difficult to accept.
What is the
function of a government? ...To protect us? ...From whom? ...How? ...is
any government doing a good job? Are they a help or a hindrance?
The concept
of deterritorialization is new, but new things are certainly not
without precedent in our evolution, or we'd have had no evolution.
When human beings moved from grunting tribalism to the idea of kingdom
& empire the idea was new... when human beings moved from monarchy
to democracy the idea was new... and of course the idea of a world
without borders and/or governments is new, or fairly new, but it is inevitable.
We are one species ...despite the fact we often pretend we are not.
Two
things have ushered us into a world without borders... the
end of the cold war and the advent of the world wide web of global communications
& commerce. Today it doesn't make a great deal of difference where
in the world we are located, we can carry on some types of commerce from
anywhere; from an island in the middle of the Caribbean to a sheep ranch
in the the Australian outback. A game of global musical chairs has begun,
and we are now changing places with people willing to go to America or
the UK to work for a wage we no longer consider attractive, while we begin
to move further afield in search of greener pastures. Many of us are now
looking for what might be called a 'life.' Tomorrow, it will
make a great deal of difference where we live. But certainly not in the
same sense as we now perceive it. Tomorrow we will live where the best
real estate exists, where the least crime and repression exists, where
population pressures have not decimated the environment and where business
is encouraged and not hindered by legislation. We will live there regardless
of that place's global location or its former political posture. If we
can now buy a ranch in Argentina (or Uruguay, or New Zealand, or name your
spot,) for ten cents on the dollar of what a similar property inside
the United States or the UK would cost us, and if we can carry on commerce
from anywhere we are, how long do you imagine it's going to take your neighbor
to realize the very same thing? As one writer put it, "those folks who
buy that ranch in Argentina today are going to have grandchildren who will
think they were a genius."
Is there anyone
reading these words who doesn't recognize that we will soon be living on
one planet without borders?
Stop and
think about the inevitable.
It is no longer
required for anyone to imagine that we live in a global economy, because
imagination has nothing to do with it. We live in a world with a global
economy. The cultural, economic and strategic interests of nations no longer
neatly stop at a line drawn in the sand... nor do they any longer precisely
overlap. The nation-state has ended. Tomorrow is on its way.
This web site
is meant to express that philosophy.
People ask
me what I mean when I use the term, 'we'?
I mean me
. . . and possibly you --- You
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