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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... lives easier , safer , and healthier - or those wrought by politi- cal means that have made our lives more free ? All of this is true . But there is also a downside . An excess of change , es- pecially if it is persistent and urgent ...
... live in any time but the present , and , distressing as the present is , we would not care to live in any other time if ... lives , to discard what it cannot use , and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most ...
... lives . We need to swim away and escape the rapids , for only by climbing onto the riverbank and catching our breath will we be able to contemplate the course and direction of our lives . Only by keeping artificial flux at a safe ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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