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2017 piece. Imaging tech & other modern methods unavailable to Freud have begun to find at least some evidence for some of Freud’s hypotheses—the pleasure principle, for example. Freud was a neuroscientist whose ambition far outstripped his technological means.
Paul Waldman*, writing about the unedifying perma-squirm that was once Marco Rubio, puts it precisely.

*My brother-in-law.
“…because we don’t want the world to be drawn to us. We’re just one more ruthless competitor in an international viper pit, and whatever we gain will be only at others’ expense, because we’re bigger and stronger than they are.”
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“But the essence of the Trump foreign policy is that this isn’t a special country, not really. We have no admirable values that lift us up, no particular principles, no desire to foment the spread of liberty. We are not trying to be a beacon to the world…”
What Happened to Marco Rubio?
Ambition is a helluva drug.
paulwaldman.substack.com
Exploitation of mass media to spread disinformation, state orchestration of xenophobia, unholy alliance of nationalist regime and ultra-right (Catholic, in this instance) religion, taking revenge on a scapegoat population for a past degradation/humiliation… our times were born in poor Dreyfus’s.
An ad agency for McDonald’s France, calling it like they see it, is using graphics and design elements of a fictional meth-smuggling front company to sell “McDo”’s reformulated “McCrispy” fried chicken.
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you/Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you/The vagabond who’s rapping at your door/Is standing in the clothes that you once wore/Strike another match, go start anew www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
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UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wait, Robert "Blank Generation Blue Mask Girlfriend" Quine was Willard "To Be Is To Be The Value Of A Bound Variable" Quine's nephew?