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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 need more escape

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