country culture commonly known “America” a badly split personality his — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger a Strange Land

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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees—its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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