The Urge to Escape  So, what to make? Well, that WOULD be a
great stunt, if I thought the "winners" weren't corporate plants
in crowd! (It’s got to be tough to predict that a guy’s vision
of a perfect escape will be a trip to Lapland!) But think of the
truth inherent in the recognition that we humans have an
incredible desire for escape. Loren Dean (in the great and
under-seen movie "Mumford") says that humans have always found a
way to escape, "even if it's just banging our heads against a
rock." In the movie, he's talking about his drug use, but the
fact remains, escape is a tantalizing prospect. Dean’s character
can’t take the depths to which his life has sunk, and turns to
drugs as his means of escape. People turn to virtual worlds
(like World of Warcraft or Second Life), pornography, or literal
travel to “get away.” The problem with escaping is that you
always have to come back. The drugs wear off, the computer gets
shut down, or the headache (from the rock) dulls. I wonder if
the guy's trip to Lapland h