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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... QUESTIONS Should a patient exhibit symptoms of confusion and disorientation , a doctor may ask a few standard questions : Do you know where you are ? Do you know what day it is ? Do you remember what happened before you got here ? Do ...
... questions . First of all , where is the estimated $ 50 billion coming from to buy the computers , wire the schools , and train the teachers to meet Bill Clinton's goal of connecting every school in the country to the Internet by the ...
... questions , for only by engaging in such a quest could we fully dis- cover and realize our own humanity . Great Books programs came to America's colleges in our own century , but the books themselves were here long before . 14 Since the ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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