Thanatos instinct - death urge (late Freud) Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at ground zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, like a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sado-masochistic expression of the Thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were boy scouts.
Herman Wouk wrote this in 1965 in 'Don't Stop the Carnival'. I don't know where this guy is now but I suggest that any comments should be addressed to: Mr H Wouk, c/o Guantanamo Bay Gulag, Cuba. That seems to be the most likely place to find him.
