Everything private is desirable, and everything public is bad: that's what the political elite want us to believe!
"Leadership" sums up, in a vague way, everything that's desirable and none of what's not.
Watching Raf Simons' stellar show, you were struck not by the power of the image he is constructing for Dior, but by how desirable everything looked.
"If we were to reject everything good and desirable in itself," she writes, "because it has been abused by mankind, we should soon discover that we had deprived ourselves of every blessing, not only temporal, but spiritual also".
Throughout history, we've used selective breeding to bring out traits we find desirable in everything from corn to cattle to the pets that perch on our shoulders and curl up in our laps, a technique I applied to humans in "Los Gigantes" (from the February 6 , 2012 issue of this magazine).
A common objection against the recognition of new rights is that it leads to the so-called 'rights inflation', which is the objectionable tendency to label everything that is morally desirable as a 'human right'.
Rights inflation is to be avoided because it dilutes the core idea of human rights and distracts from the central goal of human rights instruments, which is to protect a set of truly fundamental human interests, and not everything that would be desirable or advantageous in an ideal world.
It is under these terms, however, that the conditions have been generated which make migration from China to Hong Kong (whether willing, unwilling, and everything in between) both desirable and feasible.
Undesirable desire turned desirable.
