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Through these decisions comes the development of a culture. Through culturally escaping do we see how everyone manages and balances the cultural influences in any and all environments. No longer is escape merely a survival strategy to live safely and securely, but a managing technique for everyday living. We act through escape, using it as a subversion to be creating and finding space for unique responses to the different cultural environments. Yi-Fu Tuan asserts that escape is an ambivalent term whether escaping to or from some situation, and yet the action of escape implies individual agency that influences society. Society also imposes such a will on the individual. With the use of Pierre Bourdieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre escape becomes the navigating tool of culture, and yet its response to large gatherings of culture is to manage them. Actions of escape through everyday living activities, such as reading the romance or playing video games, becomes means of resistance that appear in contention with society are in fact in tension. To better manage and understand, we create boundaries and fields of technicality to better each and every practice. It is these tensional relationships that are used in a strategic way to have the idea of an individual reach others. Unless proven to be a valued component, all actions of the imagination remain in tension with the real. 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