6 a “small economy” (as it indicated in the aforementioned brief, p. 6, para. 13) but, may I add, with a very respectable culture - will proceed in such manner, like it did in the well-known case of Aloeboetoe et al. (merits, 1991), in which it established a remarkable and exemplary precedent for all other States Parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. V. Epilogue: A Brief Metajuridical Reflection 27. I would like to conclude this Separate Opinion with a brief reflection of a metajuridical character. Any relationship of dominance and submission brings with it the germ of destruction, and the only true and authentic “progress” is that which resides in an order based on human values13. The contemporary world can no longer be appreciated from a strictly inter-State perspective or dimension, given the displacement of millions of human beings14 and the tragic contemporary exoduses, resulting from so many injustices15. We must preserve the cultural patrimony of humankind amidst a true spirit of solidarity16, without which the future of humankind is threatened. 28. One cannot live in constant exile and displacement. Human beings share a spiritual need for roots. They cannot eternally float around a virtual world. Not surprisingly, members of traditional communities attribute particular value on their land, which they consider belongs to them, and alternatively they “belong” to their lands. In an enlightening postmortem work, regarding the need for roots, Simone Weil pondered with enlightening brilliance that: “[A] collectivity has its roots in the past. It constitutes the sole agency for preserving the spiritual treasures accumulated by the dead, the sole transmitting agency by means of which the dead can speak to the living.” 17 29. that: And in the XVI century, in his penetrating Essays (1580), Montaigne pondered "La memoria de los muertos es una recomendación para nosotros. Y yo, desde mi infancia, alimenté mi espíritu con los muertos. Tuve conocimiento de . Cf. Simone Weil, Reflexiones sobre las Causas de la Libertad y de la Opresión Social, Barcelona, Ed. Paidós/Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 1995, pp. 80 and 117. 13 . A.A. Cançado Trindade and J. Ruiz de Santiago, La Nueva Dimensión de las Necesidades de Protección..., op. cit. supra n. (3), pp. 17-1212. 14 . Cf., e.g., inter alia, C. Bordes-Benayoun and D. Schnapper, Diasporas et nations, Paris, O. Jacob, 2006, pp. 7, 11-12, 25, 63, 68, 129 and 216-219. 15 . Cf. B. Boutros-Ghali, Démocratiser la mondialisation, Monaco, Ed. Rocher, 2002, pp. 65, 106-107 and 123. 16 17 . S. Weil, The Need for Roots, London, Routledge, 1995 [reprint], p. 8.