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America's Love Affair with Mobility...
“Wandering Pilgrims or Lost Souls?” is a short interactive reflection on how America's love affair with mobility has reshaped its culture. Based on the book “Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life” by William R. Leach, it explores the:
Has American's relentless pioneering spirit to pull up stakes and find a new frontier created a more vibrant and flexible society or instead, has our endless pursuit of wealth and instant gratification destroyed our sense of community and neighborly respect, seeding greater lawlessness and apathy from coast to coast?
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Globalization, transnational corporations and commercialism have spawned an endless movement of American workers and “happiness-seekers” across borders and boundaries, severing ties with their pasts and homogenizing a once varied and majestic landscape into a featureless replication of strip malls and theme parks.