In today’s world the internet consumes the people 's minds with information. Some are useful, while others is not, but all were created by someone or something for a specific purpose. “Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas” (Glick). This was stated in Gleick’s essay “What Defines a Meme?”, and simply voicing that all the information being processed in our head creates new ways of thinking and continues to build off of each other. On the opposite side, in “The Disremembered” by Charles Leadbeater, he suggests that Dementia patients’ thoughts are restricted by the illness, only allowing the patients to remember things from their past. “It now draws heavily on her experiences as a young girl evacuated from East London during the Blitz.
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With Dementia, certain thoughts and memories creep in and out of the mind, sporadically. Many of these thoughts are of what happened years ago when they were a child, and not of current experiences. “Eventually, the sufferer fails to recognise even loved ones,” was a claim stated by Leadbeater to express the power of the disease and how this disease diminishes the memory of important relationships (Leadbeater 2). Naturally, the idea of relationships and creating new ones is gone and therefore, so is the capability to establish other ideas. Leadbeater expands on this by claiming the following statement, “A memory-based identity goes, and with that goes everything we value about the idea of independence and self-fulfilment” (Leadbeater 25). The words in Leadbeater’s claim “and with that goes everything we value about the idea of independence and self-fulfillment” is saying that as the patients lose their memory, the power of the idea of who they are has vanished, and their mind is consumed with who they once were and not who they are presently (Leadbeater 25). In brief, the progression of Dementia causing a decline of power in ideas and leaves the patient stuck in the past rather than in the
With Dementia, certain thoughts and memories creep in and out of the mind, sporadically. Many of these thoughts are of what happened years ago when they were a child, and not of current experiences. “Eventually, the sufferer fails to recognise even loved ones,” was a claim stated by Leadbeater to express the power of the disease and how this disease diminishes the memory of important relationships (Leadbeater 2). Naturally, the idea of relationships and creating new ones is gone and therefore, so is the capability to establish other ideas. Leadbeater expands on this by claiming the following statement, “A memory-based identity goes, and with that goes everything we value about the idea of independence and self-fulfilment” (Leadbeater 25). The words in Leadbeater’s claim “and with that goes everything we value about the idea of independence and self-fulfillment” is saying that as the patients lose their memory, the power of the idea of who they are has vanished, and their mind is consumed with who they once were and not who they are presently (Leadbeater 25). In brief, the progression of Dementia causing a decline of power in ideas and leaves the patient stuck in the past rather than in the