When I first read that Dwight Johnson was advocating the idea of competitive governments in Cherry Hill (New Jersey), and was trying to plant the seeds for its implementation, I realized that Panarchy had come of age. It was not any longer a funny scheme debated by strange and lonely intellectuals, but something that can transform and improve the lives of everyone, one by one, according to his or her voluntary choices, in every matter, not just religion or marriage.

Panarchy South Jersey is another stone in the building of this framework leading to truly responsible and humane social relations, with each of us deciding, in different ways, how we want to live, of which organization we want to be members, and how we want to allocate our resources. All this should be common sense, but it is not; at least not until many common sense individuals like Dwight open the way that obstruct rational endeavours and engage themselves in making sensible things happen.

Gian Piero de Bellis is the webmaster of Panarchy.org. He lives now in Saint-Imier (Switzerland) where he has set up a Research and Documentation Centre (World Wide Wisdom) on personal and social issues (panarchy / polyarchy) and problem-dealing (problemistics).