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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... present a higher priority than it did to the past . Danger lurked in the here and now , and hunger and thirst cried out for immediate satisfaction . Thus the present had an instinctual primacy the past did not . So was it always in the ...
... Present . The electronic innovation that has had the most impact on America's memory is television . Though TV sets can be found in schools , television's greatest influence occurs at home . According to TV Guide , the average American ...
... present , and the present alone , that we live in and must deal with . Home Again When Ulysses returned home at last after twenty years of war and wan- dering , fresh challenges awaited him . In the two decades that had passed since he ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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