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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... speed . 10 We are surrounded by that environment today . The transformations it has undergone in just the last few decades are dramatic . The first personal com- puter , for example , appeared in 1970 ; by 1984 , only eight out of one ...
... speed , a speed engendered and sustained by elec- tronic technologies that operate at the velocity of light . More and more , society's structure comes to resemble an electronic circuit in which being " on line " is akin to life itself ...
... speed and its efficacy lead people to value speed more than ever before , diminishing in their eyes the worth of activities that take time , including the time - consuming activity of learning . Speed and Memory . If remembering takes ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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