算是回應你的兩篇雄文。可惜俺的爛中文翻不好

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what is it that you fantasize about? World peace. I thought so. Do you fantasize about international fame? Do you fantasize about winning a Pulitzer Prize, or a nobel peace prize? Do you fantasize about an MTV music award? Do you fantisize about meeing some genius hunk, ostensible bad, but secretly simmering with noble passion and willing to sleep on the wet spot?

Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment - the second that you get what you seek, you don't you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that want. It's the fantasy of it. So desire supports crazy fantasies.

This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. It came today, or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill, or be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it, but because you are doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan** is living by your wants will never make you happy. What is means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires, but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.

**Jacques Lacan is a French psychoanalyst, who thinks the unconscious, which governs all factors of human existence, is structured like a language. The ego or "I" self, the conscious is only an illusion.