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

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.

This anodyne-­sounding platitude belies something darker.

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.

For him, a more fulsome embrace of technology capitalism will serve to strengthen society.