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Neither. It is a lack of knowledge.

Isn't the constant yearning for knowledge an example of what @cosimia_ referencing? Even the knowledge that limiting our desires bring only temporary reprieve; we must constantly remind ourselves to be satisfied. Insatiability seems like an evolved trait

Yeap seems like it. Our awareness of the future (degradation/death/potential calamity) means we'll always be pushed to develop greater control over our environments.

One would think an awareness of death would push us to be more content with our time and environment

both Buddist Dukhha is the human condition Modernist paradigm, or western before it - is that we can get more, get better, get larger. Carry a bigger cross. Carry more knowledge. Carry more gold. Society = Individuals

Yup. It's a weird topsy turvy situation where past fuels present, plus an abundance of emergent properties

I think Deleuze and Guattari might classify this insatiability in their notion of ‘anti-production’. Legitimate anti-production looks like epistemological endeavours and explorations. Illegitimate anti-production looks like McMansions and the commodification of unemployment.

Modernism, with capitalism has created a fertile topology for both legitimate and illegitimate anti-production but more so for the latter. Says Guy Debord. So like yeah. Both.