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This artificial hierarchy, because it goes against human desires to be free, required a tremendous amount of violence to maintain.
But the difference is that, back then, it was driven by a very passionate feminist movement that was trying to project its own desires, whereas this time, it's not about passion, and it's not about any kind of movement.
Me was composed of stories, of cravings, of strivings, of desires of the future.
But I realize that at the end of the day, our efforts do not always yield our desires.
You have desires, maybe for a cookie, maybe for something that we don't want to talk about at 11 o'clock in the morning in a school.
Well, clearly there are memories, desires, intentions, sensations, and so forth.
And so really, there are all these things, like beliefs, desires, sensations, experiences, they're all related to each other, and that just is you.
We want to satisfy our individual desires.
There's no reason to believe that African women have innately different desires.
But that doesn't change my belief that all of us, deep inside, here in this room and across this country, share a similar set of desires.
"I turn off my desires when ..." Which is not the same question as, "What turns me off is ..." and "You turn me off when ..." And people began to say, "I turn myself off when I feel dead inside, when I don't like my body, when I feel old, when I haven't had time for myself, when I haven't had a chance to even check in with you, when I don't perform well at work, when I feel low self esteem, when I don't have a sense of self-worth, when I don't feel like I have a right to want, to take, to receive pleasure."
It's their insight into the prejudices, the vulnerabilities, the desires of the people they're trying to reach that does that.
But if we could create sexuality education that was more like pizza, we could create education that invites people to think about their own desires, to make deliberate decisions about what they want, to talk about it with their partners, and to ultimately look for not some external outcome but for what feels satisfying, and we get to decide that.
Technology has this extraordinary capacity to both instantiate and continue all of our most extraordinary, often hidden desires and biases and encoding them into the world, but it also writes them down so that we can see them, so that we can't pretend they don't exist anymore.
But in fact, in a few years, organizations will know so much about us, they will be able to infer our desires before we even form them, and perhaps buy products on our behalf before we even know we need them.
On the free market of individual desires, I negotiate my value every day.
And so what I'm arguing against is the shame that's associated with desires.
Just like in Silicon Valley, some of the seismic shifts in technology and consumer behavior have been driven by academic research, have been driven by enterprise desires, with the whims of privilege and youth sprinkled in every once in a while.
That's communicated to the bionic limb, so when I think about moving my phantom limb, the robot tracks those movement desires.
And a critically important step in understanding our own desires and tastes is to realize that we cannot always explain what we want, deep down.
And we think there's a lot of something out there but that's because we're enslaved by our desires.
If we let our desires melt away, we'll see the world for what it truly is, a vacuity, nothingness, and we'll slip into this happy state of nirvana which has been defined as having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
So, in a day where a new information technology allows us to participate globally in any conversation, our barriers of information are completely lowered and we can, more than ever before, express our desires and our concerns.
Our desire to alter our consciousness may be as fundamental as our desires for food, companionship and sex.
Well, look how much food you can produce on 100 acres if you do this kind of ... again, give each species what it wants, let it realize its desires, its physiological distinctiveness.
Heather, she goes digging, and she finds hundreds of messages, and photos exchanged and desires expressed.
But we also have never been more inclined to stray, and not because we have new desires today, but because we live in an era where we feel that we are entitled to pursue our desires, because this is the culture where I deserve to be happy.
Having that criminal record makes it so much more difficult to leave poverty, leave abuse, or leave prostitution, if that person so desires.
We often think that as we age, we lose the desires held in our youth.
Actually, as a teenage photojournalist when I met the trio, I saw their behavior as a mirror to the fears of exclusion and desires for intimacy that I also carried.
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