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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... give them better memories : for I have found the elixir of memory and wisdom . ” Thamus replied : “ O most ingenious Thoth , he who has the gift of invention is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions ...
... give students the illusion of success and to make the lives of teachers easier.62 In one respect , however ... gives us what we want instantly ( or almost in- stantly ) . It can make us smart , and it can make us money , because if we're ...
... give us is a reason to value that past . They can give us more facts than we can ever use . What they cannot give us is judgment or goodness.75 As Neil Postman has cogently observed : The computer argues ... that the most serious ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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