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But the practical application of their ideas—particularly in the digital age—has generated its own valency. gencies charged with the protection of the public have ended up serving their own interests above all.

This anodyne-­sounding platitude belies something darker.

This is Freud’s pleasure principle writ large—a social experience that is centered around pursuing endless saccharine indulgences with the promise of avoiding reality.

In these early years of Don Carlos’s life, relations with the pater- familias were still good

It isn't gross so much as redolent of must and neglect.