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%NOURISHMENT OF DESIRES 780829
The nourishment of desires involves a balance between
the fulfillment of the desire by letting-go to it's
motivation---and the affirmation of the desire while
prudently refraining from letting-go to it's motivation. A
desire is not maintained through undisciplined letting-go
to its motivation---without prudence. Satiation
will eliminate the desire and make it's "fulfillment"
less meaningful---than will prudent nourishment of the
desire in a disciplined way. Failure to affirm the
desire when prudence indicated that letting-go to it's
motivation is unwise---will also kill the desire through
the elimination of hope, the denial of it's legitimacy,
it's repression, etc. Desires cannot grow in the absence
of hope, respect for their legitimacy, or the freedom
to be open about them.
Violence is done to our desires when those closest to
us are unaware of them, unable to acknowledge them, and/or
unable to nourish them. In the absence of friendly
nourishment of our desires---we inevitably have
problems with their legitimacy. We may be torn between
imprudent assertions of our desires on the one hand; and
joining collusions which ignore, taboo, repress, and in
other ways do violence to our desires.
There are some desires which need to be nourished by
those closest to us---without the need for us to ask
for nourishment. If we must ask for nourishment of
our desires; even if it is granted, it will have lost
it's meaning because we had to ask for it. This
makes it essential that we be sensitive to each other's
desires and become aware of them apart from a formal
assertion. Insensitivity to each other's needs and
desires can thus contribute to their starvation and
death. When our desires are not nourished we die as
unique individuals---even though we may continue to
function as automata in accordance with cultural
patterns of behavior. Automata are not creative or
loving---they cannot cope spontaneously with novel
situations. Automata have low survival potential in
revolutionary situations, whether they be made of
electronic or organic components. Thus our corporate
survival depends upon our mutual nourishment of our unique
individual desires; rather than upon our regulation of
them to make them conform to some theoretical ideal.
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