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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... never was and never will be . " 68 Today , when so many Americans can be numbered as victims of cultural amnesia , his words have particular relevancy for the future of our nation . A decade of statistics about the ignorance of our ...
... never been a time of such drastic and irretrievable information loss . . . . We've turned into a total amnesiac . We do short - term memory , period . " 29 Ironically , it is old - fashioned paper that is the most durable memory sponge ...
... never went to elementary school , or middle school , or high school . He never took a course in geography , or history , or math . Poor guy , he never even had a computer , never " surfed the Net " -though he did know a lot about surf ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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