desire
Hot climate causes you to disregard your own needs and
desires; you keep trying to forget your own state of existence, on the one hand,
while on the other hand you try to survive. But you won’t try anything more than
simple survival, causing yourself to rarely ever look in the direction of
progress.
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Let's do something that will satisfy us in our lives -
but can we always satisfy ourselves? That depends on our needs and desires as
well as the capacities which nature has endowed us with to fulfill them. This
capacity depends not so much on genetics and talents as much as in the
facilities surrounding a person that will help him to do what he or she wishes
to. If it is ensured that these facilities are present before his or her
conception and consequent birth happens, then this individual can be said to
have been fairly dealt by life. If not, the individual is faced with a bundle of
lies and superstitions that try to fool him that life has been fair, these lies
and superstitions being the very seeds sown in him which will later sprout, grow
and turn him or her into one of the innumerable instruments propagating and
maintaining in order the countless forms of camouflaged evils of all forms in
society.
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But we also know that man’s desire has no limits and in
satisfying his desire, he harms other humans. The more humans there are, the
more likely obstacles in his path, the more humans are harmed, because more
humans would also be desirous of the same and would challenge him. Man’s desire
can neither be completely extinguished nor satisfied. Either extreme is
dangerous. To extinguish his desire completely would result in the extinguishing
of his desire to live itself, making him inhuman and lifeless while satisfying
desire completely would be impossible, and if seriously attempted, would cause
either war and strife over natural resources or the depletion of natural
resources, or both. Man’s desire is not to be extinguished or satisfied
completely, but controlled. To be able to control one’s desires is possible only
if one is knowledgeable. It is possible to be knowledgeable only if one is
civilized. It is possible to be civilized only if one’s basic survival needs are
fully met and never under threat. So, if we secure basic survival needs of all
humans, freeing them from the animal pursuit of food and shelter and instead
allowing them a civilized pursuit of knowledge and education, we would make them
all knowledgeable enough to control their desires and therefore end the
wretchedness and strife that has plagued humanity throughout its existence. Man
can control his desire though knowledge but knowledge cannot come to him without
being civilized, i.e., without transferring him from the animal pursuit of food
and shelter to the civilized pursuit of knowledge and education through securing
his basic survival needs.
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When everyone is born into a reasonable level of
financial capability, the value of the human being in general will rise. On an
average, more money will be spent on a human being in all matters. The life,
desires, feelings, thoughts and wishes of all humans will be more easily
recognized and fulfilled. Everyone will finally have the freedom and security
required to live and act in tune with their natural selves. Self-expression
would be more aptly rewarded and virtues would be appropriately honored.
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Imagine a world where your ability to contribute does
not matter at all. Is it possible? We are drawn to the people and things that
give us something, contribute. So it will always matter. But suppose all your
needs from birth to death: food, shelter, clothing, sanitation, education - are
paid for before you are born. And suppose it is the same for everyone else.
Everyone (including you) would not be looking out for ways fulfill their needs
and desires – they would already be taken care of. No one would care about other
people’s ability to contribute. If they want more than what has been paid for
before their birth, then they would look around to see as to who can contribute
to their happiness. If not, they won’t. And if they don’t, there ends racism,
classism, sexism – all forms of biased treatment. Actually there ends your power
to treat others in a biased manner, because others’ needs would already be taken
care of.
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Nations pile up weapons and build armies to ensure
national security. But what are they securing? A bunch of humans with no hope or
desire to live? A bunch of humans who cheat, steal or even kill to survive? A
bunch of the rich who live their whole lives preferring to look the other way?
We are only securing despair, hopelessness and treachery for generations to
come. So, let us instead secure the future of the unborn child. And hence
prevent the seeds of hopelessness and treachery from being sown.
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For it is not desire or need but the non-fulfillment of
desire and need that is the cause of all evil.
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When the desire to exist is absent in an individual,
the desire to live and improve one’s life is also automatically absent.
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