Call it what you will.
Sometimes I see the frontier as a place to hide more than anything else. We have called it a place of progress; a place to start anew. But, a progression to anything only means you are abandoning something else. When you start anew, your are forsaking another way of life. Maybe that is for the better, and maybe it is not.
If the frontier is no longer a place, it most certainly is a concept. It may not be a place to which we physically escape, but we certainly escape there in some conceptual sense. I know I do. It's easier that way.
