American vs British propaganda

still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made traveler at afn.org
Thu May 1 10:29:52 CDT 1997


On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jules Siegel wrote:
 [stuff about British monarchy snipped]

Nothing really new to me there...the late origin of the kilt, the Hanovers
being German, etc.  However, I do like the following bit:

> Americans have mastered the supermarket. They buy and sell physical wants by
> manipulating Freudian psychological drives. The British have mastered power.
> They buy and sell souls by manipulating Jungian archetypes. Hitler was much
> closer to Jung than Freud (whom I believe he hated, as did Stalin) in his
> methods and interests. His inspiration was British, not American, and his
> visual style was very much heraldic rather than popular.

Max

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