Desire is a word best known as a synonym for lust or wish. Contrary to the popular belief, the word desire possesses power to change the world and shape a society. It is human nature to chase after our desires. History itself is a witness how desires can shape a society. Adolf Hitler’s desires changed the world forever. His desires led to a world war and deaths of millions. On the other hand, an influential person such as Martin Luther King Jr.’s desires brought about a change and revolution for the good of society. Desires are our goals, visions, focus- essentially it is the way we envision the society to be. Desires should only be utilized in moderation in shaping the society. Cathy Davidson in her piece “Project Classroom Makeover”, suggests
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The problem is that if we let people function freely without any limitations, there is no precedent as to how they will react and behave. Bad desires can easily takeover the good desires and to a point that they cannot go back. An important hole in Davidson’s, Johnson’s and Ho’s arguments is that they do not define “desire”. They do not mention “bad desires” and never make the effort to mention what would happen if bad desires become prominent in shaping society. Bad desires would be anything that would be infringe upon people’s rights, and something harmful for the society. Good desires are desires that have beneficial purpose to them for the whole society and do not hurt, mislead anyone part of the society. With the rules and regulations we have today, there are still people who 's desires hurt others. Let them free and it will be a chaotic environment. Recently, the spotting of clowns who try to scare people with machetes and etc. What are their desires? Do we adhere to their desires to as a society? How do we distinguish the desires as to which we should abide and how the society should be organized. The clowns chasing people is an example of bad desire and something that is harmful to the society. All three authors completely ignored humans dark side. Not providing a concrete definition for the word desire will only lead to a world of manipulation, chaos and
The problem is that if we let people function freely without any limitations, there is no precedent as to how they will react and behave. Bad desires can easily takeover the good desires and to a point that they cannot go back. An important hole in Davidson’s, Johnson’s and Ho’s arguments is that they do not define “desire”. They do not mention “bad desires” and never make the effort to mention what would happen if bad desires become prominent in shaping society. Bad desires would be anything that would be infringe upon people’s rights, and something harmful for the society. Good desires are desires that have beneficial purpose to them for the whole society and do not hurt, mislead anyone part of the society. With the rules and regulations we have today, there are still people who 's desires hurt others. Let them free and it will be a chaotic environment. Recently, the spotting of clowns who try to scare people with machetes and etc. What are their desires? Do we adhere to their desires to as a society? How do we distinguish the desires as to which we should abide and how the society should be organized. The clowns chasing people is an example of bad desire and something that is harmful to the society. All three authors completely ignored humans dark side. Not providing a concrete definition for the word desire will only lead to a world of manipulation, chaos and