Derren Brown on Desire

How brilliant this guy is, and the point? He says in a nut shell that we select evidence to support those ideas that we desire. Buddha would "agree".

So what is his desire? His desire for "truth"? My friend the Ouroboros is back in town. If truth is simply another desire like all the others then it cannot be separated from falsehood and so dies.

Are we trapped by desire then, automata whose minds cannot escape the wishes. Machines programmed to fulfill our wants. All things become good because all things have the same origin, that of desire. Is this what I desire? To subsume into desire myself? Well for all Dionysus' temptation we know that there is non-desire also. What of this? A desire to be liberated from desire? A desire which seeks non-desire. And, the void which seeks desire to fill itself?

This is as far as I've gotten and I have nothing to say beyond this. I realised today in quite irrational discussions with my mother that at root the rationalist like myself has to accept that a large section of society, and a large section of even rational minds, operates without any wish to make sense. My mother openly rejects all attempts to rationalise and correct herself. The issue of the plug at the wall remains and she positively rejects any channel toward being educated about electrcity. Her "thought" is hers and she will protect it. But of course so do I. And my wish stems from not wanting to contort myself around the dressing table. (See a recent post for the laborious details of this ultra-mundanity). But it is my wish to move beyond the mundane and the boring which is my desire in this dispute. Quite what my mother's desire is remains a mystery.

So we have a world of people with desires and simply force as a means of resolution? Except this is not true. But there is nothing else I can say beyond this, until I can speak without desire! otherwise I will simply promote those ideas which I wish... and even here is tis what I wish. Well actually I'm just speaking into space without much analysis ... just a wish that oneday I may write something that looks like truth since no-one else seems to be writing it...