I don't really buy that Simón's sexual desires can be explained by nostalgia.
The populist imagines – or cynically pretends – that no compromise is required because everyone's desires can be satisfied once the wicked "establishment" is overthrown.
On the other hand, if desires can be manipulated in one direction, why shouldn't they be manipulated in another, more benign direction?
But, in even the most perverse installments, there's a delicacy, a humane concern at how easily our private desires can be mined in the pursuit of profit.
But not all desires can be instrumental desires.
Almost everyone now accepts, for example, (post-Freud) that beliefs and desires can be activated unconsciously.
It is generally held that desires come on a continuum of strength: desires can be stronger or weaker.
So Max's desires can be used to explain why he has the internal reasons that he has.
Second, persons are presumed to be instrumentally rational and so capable of understanding how the satisfaction of their desires can be helped by cooperative social interaction.
Empathy's central epistemic role has to be admitted, since beliefs and desires can be understood only in this manner as an agent's reasons.
