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In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

Don DeLillo
Dream, Country, Men
Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.189, Penguin

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

Don DeLillo
Country, Powerful, War
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

Don DeLillo
Country, War, Men
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

Don DeLillo
Country, Fall, Cutting
Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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