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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... Nature's Memory Nature has its own memory . Unlike the human brain , Nature's memory is not encoded in electrochemical form . Instead , its inorganic changes are in- scribed in soil and rocks ; its organic changes , in fossilized ...
... natural . This artificial world was markedly different from the natural one in the way it expressed and embodied change . While nature tended to regenerate and repeat itself in regular cycles , the artificial world was characterized by ...
... nature's own deep soil , we can come to absorb its underlying harmony . Apart from weather , change in the natural world tends to be gradual . As a consequence , the world of nature stands in contrast to the hurried culture of today ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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