Magic Marker Countries...

I have been trying to find a way to explain one of the core concepts of An Eos Life for some time -- then I found this.  If you click on the photo that says dance here, you will be taken to a filmmaker street art video.

Draw a circle -- step into it -- dance!  That is all we are really saying in An Eos Life.  All over the world, under different political and social systems - this is how societies change. 

This applied in my old job as well.  We called them magic marker countries - as the number of countries almost doubled in my lifetime.  One day there was no country there and the next day someone drew a circle on a map -- creating a new country.  It happens all the time. 

I studied to be a neutral advisor to those developing states or magic marker countries.  I met some of the people that were observers in the first South African election.  All they did was stand there and watch what was going on.  That sounded a lot better than photojournalism -- where people were still shooting at each other.  So, my career evolved and I started going to places building themselves -- instead of ones blowing themselves up.

And a pattern developed.  The gridlock of politics got in the way of progress.  Left blamed Right.  Conservative blamed Liberal.  We all know the story.  There were just too many rules getting in the way of business developing.  So, this idea of a special economic zone was born.  What is that?

Well, no more complicated than the circle above -- and really just a country within a country.  You take an area on the map.  You make up a reality where inside that circle none of the old rules of life or politics apply.  And it has been my job to live inside of those since I was in my 20's.  I do not believe I have an overly simple way of looking at our modern world.  I believe others have an overly complicated one.  M



 
 

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