Always wanting to run... away somewhere

[auroraglacialis]

Indeed - I think people are looking for different conditions and something within themselves that should change. So they seek to run away in order to change their own condition which is however only to some degree influenced by external factors and equally important are internal factors. So I would not say that running away - or rather changing the external conditions is useless, but it is not sufficient. One has also to allow these external circumstances to influence ones own inner conditions and not remain unchanged. Now in Avatar terms, if you go to Pandora but remain in the mindset of a skyperson you would be like the RDA managers, like Selfridge maybe. If you try to at least fit in and respect these circumstances, your new environment you may be like Trudy or Norm or even like Grace, but to reach a full change of the conditions you ran away from, you basically have to become Jake and switch your mindset to fit these new conditions.
It is interesting to look at Avatar in that sense as there were all stages of this process described in the various Characters that are on Pandora not purely out of monetary reasons - from the oppositional Quaritch who keeps his offensive mindset against these new circumstances to all the characters described in more detail who have various degrees of affiliation and are influenced (allowed themselves to be influenced) by Pandora to various degrees up to Jake who embraces the new circumstances to a degree that he is basically willing to even give up his own human body eventually.

This is fascinating.