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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... look back . Instead , we have to deal with the problems at hand . Nevertheless , the question of how we deal with those problems will still remain . Will we deal with them effectively as individuals if in our hurry we forget who we are ...
... look at them , they stir our thoughts and allow us to return in our imagination to places visited in the past . Indeed , the very word " souvenir " comes from the French word that means " to remember . " In the same way , the ancient ...
... look and behave in alien ways . In fact , in recent years the rate of technological change has been accelerat- ing exponentially.8 Nature too changes , but the process of evolution by which species come into being and disappear tends to ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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