A little was enough.

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.”

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.

25 on 9/19/25. Hard to believe.

Fair point.

I love Calling All Destroyers even more!

They were so good!