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What people biologically want is the path of least resistance, a continued narrowing of scope interaction, and intellect.
Anyone can create frictionless content, and dumb items for consumption. To make something lasting attempt to map out your own desires, and then look outside of them: take on the hard thing no one knows they want.
This process at least has a chance of impacting lives in a meaningful way.
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We think we are free because we recognize an impulse to do something and then choose whether or not to do it. If so, then we are choosing to fulfill our desire, which looks like a choice freely made.
Did we freely choose our desires?
If they are manipulated and controlled at a subconscious, libidinal level, to be truly free we must rewire our desire.
From Yuval Noah Harari
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The insistence on transparency can only go so far. Awareness of motivation is often unknown, subliminally psychological, and instinctual.
We cannot strip beyond our skin without encountering the shifting mechanisms that, once observed, change their function: awareness through observation alters motivation, subverting them into alternate desires.
To know something (or someone) is to stop at a certain level, or else you risk reshaping them, which inverts certainty into unpredictability.
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Love… if we are desiring machines, if that is what makes us as individual subjects, our desire, then if you fulfill your desire, you must desire anew to continue being you.
Without desire “you” would disintegrate, so never fulfill your desire, maintain it in it’s mystery and unfulfilled state: to kill romances is to understand.
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We generate the sensation of warmth, nearly visceral, when wanting or being wanted.
Equally hate generates rage, another fire powering, binding and engulfing people.
To not want, to be disinterested is to be “cool,” reptilian.
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How do you know what to fight against until it appears and is defined?
The isolated tribe cannot defend against the capitalist hegemonic state until it grasps the model of destabilization and desire introduced from the contact. (How could you imagine this in advance?)
While you can target all outsiders (strangers) as enemies in preemptive defense, the more subversive model is a subliminal natural desire.
For instance: The oedipal complex names your unconscious desires, allowing you to defend and socialize against them.
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Goalsetting is several small steps (micro goals) that are focal points on the longer path.
As you near the completion of your goal, called the “goal gradient,” you push harder.
Interestingly, a “sunk cost fallacy” drives us forward: the closer we get to success, the harder we try to achieve it, doubling and tripling our effort.
The exponential effort can work unless your goal is constantly vanishing in front of you.
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If desire produces more desire, then our desire is to chase desire itself. It’s all about the pursuit, with the goal itself being sort of made up along the way.
If we speak of an economy modeled on how desire works, we chase money for money.
Economic value is not in the commodity (object) we pursue but in the pursuit of more. The pursuit of excess.
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The more you see yourself as productive, i.e., someone who accomplishes your desires, the more "you" becomes an act of capturing outcomes.
This is because actions for purpose become utility, and utility is a trait of objects: to pride yourself on your "use" ahead of your "self" is to subjugate your value to production.
Similarly, equating your identity with desire (and its fulfillment) is to relate to all things as gratification or blockage; reductionist othering converts everything into objects and acts.
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We have a desire; we chase it, catch it, and consume it. We then need another passion. Our hands are full, but as we grasp for more, we inevitably drop once meaningful pieces of ourselves.
There is a "one-in-one-out" policy when we relate to desire as captured objects. You can clutch them to you but only hold so many; thus, they fall away as you dart about in pursuit.
Or, you can let them pass through you as they arise, enjoying them without possessing them. This is love without attachment or ego making demands or expecting reciprocation. And you are still present and full of enjoyment without the grasping.
