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¹Yet even as we enjoy the opportunities of the borderless economy and the varieties of
world music and our ability to appreciate the cultures of the world in our living rooms, we
fail sometimes to consider where we are going or what we might be losing. "To be
rooted," wrote the philosopher Simone Weil, "is perhaps the most important and least
recognized need of the human soul." And in our dawning age of rootlessness, we tend to
speed into the future without counting the bends in the road.