Four Inches Longer
Woman shopping for car: It seems so much longer than last year!
Salesman: It is! Nearly four inches longer in some models.
Woman (sitting behind the wheel): Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
-- from Adam Curtis' documentary, “Century of Self,” about the 20th-century attempt, by government and business, to control or manipulate the irrational impulses in human beings that Sigmund Freud discovered and/or emphasized in his work.
The 1951 Plymouth Orgasmatron.
Tags: The Century of the Self, Adam Curtis, Sigmund Freud, Documentaries
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