thinking out loud

The source of all value is desire. Desire is a self-made apparition. It emerges from encountering a lack, thought or felt, and developing an expressive vocabulary for addressing it. More importantly, desire's roots are in the most fundamental of survival impulses such that under abject circumstances, hunger, discomfort, disease, malaise all represent the deep structure of overwhelming desire. The comforts of everyday living and the continual maintenance routines that structure one's life and relations are one expressive vocabulary of desire as well. As they are routinized they reflect the solution to certain desires within timespans that all but reduce the agony of desire to, at  best, expressions of the bored. This reveals a feature of desire, which in its pursuit the verve and vivacity of lack in emerging from its imminent satisfaction structure a dynamic life. Desire is always there. It simply gets attenuated by the solutions arrived at for its pre-emption in everyday existence. What we can overlay upon this feature of desire as an appetite and the pursuit of its satisfaction in time is the physical structure of mentation within nerves that go through cycles of excitation, conduction, refraction, and potentiation to propagate charges again, all happening within a sequence of time. This is instructive. It offers a structural motif at the base of consciousness that gets reflected in conscious activity over larger spans of time. The pursuit of satisfaction driven by desire occurs upon the structure of continuous nervous activity.