We are the anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement. The heart and the head. Motor and steering.

It's even reflective of society. The organic social energies propelling society, versus the civil and cultural forms giving it structure and stability. Liberals and conservatives.

Though admittedly, in our current situation, having ridden a wave of geographic, technological, informational expansion of the last few hundred years, there is a collective head spinning. Especially since that upward trend seems to be breaking. Not everyone will just launch off into space.

The mechanisms of desire have been abstracted and focused into turning the medium of exchange, money, enabling mass societies to function, into a commodity to mine from said societies, so there is that rot at the center. The medium became the message, the tool the god.

Meanwhile the media streams endless beautiful people and exciting narratives into our minds, drowning out any sense of individual expression and uniqueness. Given the vast majority of those striving to climb to the top of this current model of success will only be monetized and consumed by the forces at work, it seems the only excape is to melt into the background and study it.

Where is it going? Do I want to go there, or find an offramp and just take to the back roads.

Will it spiral into some cataclysm and those surviving have to find some way to start over.

Are there flaws and holes in the system that can be useful. More is not always better.

When is it useful to be part of the hive mind and when is it wise to think through all the assumptions.

The fact is the world now is history's greatest puzzle and maze and exploring it will be a lifetime process. Not all desires are healthy, nor are all decisions wise, but we have to try them to figure out which is which.

The mind will quickly glom onto anything passing through, so it does have to be filtered and sorted. Some as seed, some as fertilizer. Above all, it's all educational. Trial and error.