Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 176 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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... Forget Leaving Pain Behind . Novelist Sholem Asch once wrote : " Not the power to remember , but its very opposite , the power to forget , is a necessary condition for our existence . " 3 We need not enter a fugue state to acknowl- edge ...
... forget . " Yet if God's angels could not resist exulting over fallen enemies , it may be too much to expect better behavior from mere mortals . Nevertheless , if human beings are ever to live in peace , they must gain rational control ...
... forget things . That's no rea- son to assume we're getting Alzheimer's disease . If we forget where we parked the car in the mall parking lot , we need not rush to a neurologist ; if we forget that we drove there , or can't remember ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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