In case it hasn’t been mentioned, many stores that sell Mountain Dew also stock NoDoz tablets, which you can develop a technique for swallowing whole with water.
I was actually in the position of wanting to develop a tolerance for spicy foods when I was young. I would go to the pantry and treat myself by dosing myself with Tabasco sauce. But I don’t think of that as my “wanting to want KimChee.” I wanted to eat KimChee like my parents and I took steps to achieve that goal.
I don’t think there’s any need for meta-desires at all, except for one: a drive to resolve conflicting desires. And this is arguably also a 1st order desire. There are obvious reasons why we’d evolve such a drive. We can explain away things like wanting to want internal conflict as merely a desire to be someone like Timothy Levitch from “Waking Life.” It also makes sense that one can formulate paradoxical desires that are strongly resistant to resolution, or rationalize to oneself that they are conundrums. But I posit that these are merely ill-formed desires—that if you can’t reduce everything down to conflicting 1st-order desires, you haven’t delved deeply enough.
In case it hasn’t been mentioned, many stores that sell Mountain Dew also stock NoDoz tablets, which you can develop a technique for swallowing whole with water.
I was actually in the position of wanting to develop a tolerance for spicy foods when I was young. I would go to the pantry and treat myself by dosing myself with Tabasco sauce. But I don’t think of that as my “wanting to want KimChee.” I wanted to eat KimChee like my parents and I took steps to achieve that goal.
I don’t think there’s any need for meta-desires at all, except for one: a drive to resolve conflicting desires. And this is arguably also a 1st order desire. There are obvious reasons why we’d evolve such a drive. We can explain away things like wanting to want internal conflict as merely a desire to be someone like Timothy Levitch from “Waking Life.” It also makes sense that one can formulate paradoxical desires that are strongly resistant to resolution, or rationalize to oneself that they are conundrums. But I posit that these are merely ill-formed desires—that if you can’t reduce everything down to conflicting 1st-order desires, you haven’t delved deeply enough.
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2003/11/19/timothy-levitch-waking-life/