I saw a TV programme last night about super skinny people exchanging diets with super fat people- tv gone mad.
Getting a thin girl to eat a fat mans food for a week is just bizarre. She felt really sick and he felt really hungry- what a revelation. I then saw a dinner party of anorexics asked to prepare there own brie sandwich and eat lunch together.
It sounds like a cruel comedy sketch – and it was. – “no, put a bit more brie on their girl” as she spread the thinnest line of cheese ever. It made me think that everyone is fucked up by there own desires- they’re out of control- the thin person wants to eat but can’t – the fat person wants to by thin but can’t stop eating – the poor person wants to be rich but the rich person isn’t happy anyway. People want to be famous – but the famous are messed up by it and either suck it up like a drug or want to curl up in a ball of anonymity.
The average Joe wants to be more eccentric. The eccentric feels misunderstood…. Blah blah blah – ok I’m generalizing and of course its not always the case– the point is, you can make money out of desire- so it’s encouraged all the time – its an endless dangling carrot, a mirage. It sells products, shifts units, builds brands. But we’re the ones that are shortchanged because you can’t buy happiness and desire is a mysterious moving set of goal posts that rarely brings you any satisfaction.
Rick
I found these quotes on desire:
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“when will you accept yourself”
Morrissey
Socrates: Desire Quotes
“Be as you wish to seem.”
“We pursue that which retreats from us.”
Martin Hiedegger
“The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
Marcel Proust
