The Critical Question of What Is Human Desire

I think desire is very important because if we treat it as it's entirely taken over and there's a kind of totalitarian control of human desire, then we may as well just give up feeling, thinking, wanting, trying. So the philosopher is we can take it up and we can talk to one another about it. But we cannot pretend that the critical question of what is human desire is just some philosophical inquiry. No, no, it comes out in the world through the materialization of real revolts. I vacillate between hope and despair. Some of the things that give me hope are like what's happening right now in France. And Macron cannot put a cap on it. He

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