You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Immediately – It Might Take Seven Years)

Rereading Marion Milner means thinking hard about desire. “We think of our desires as being pure and instinctual, never really understanding the influence cultural norms, or what we see on television or in pornography. We feel pulled toward something we consider magical and totally individual, and then we get our hands on it and realize it’s not having much of an effect on us after all. Why were we craving this again?”