Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... become the largest in- dustry in the world , second only to the production of food . Rapid change has in fact become the most dominant characteristic of the society in which we live . Indeed , it is so prevalent a force that its ...
... become more about training and less about transformation . " 44 One of the most depressing aspects of these findings is an apparent de- cline of idealism among the young . As far back as the days of Aristotle , ide- alism had been ...
... become a " culture of complaint , " in which separate ethnic and racial groups view themselves as victims of discrimination whose achievements have never received credit . They chal- lenge " e pluribus unum " by asserting that America ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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