Hollywood Accredits the Memes: The Body National and the Myth of theNation

Hollywood Accredits the Memes: The Body National and the Myth of the Nation from Spike EP on Vimeo.

"Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in. 

They might not be true - but they were necessary illusions. 

One of these was religion; the other was the myth of the nation."