Deliberately echoing the rambunctious Teddy Roosevelt, Obama's recent speech calling for an America that is "fair" reminded us all how powerfully he can state the case, and how powerfully we yearn for a leader who will demand the best from us and elected officials.
This is hardly alien to our understanding of how the body, mind and external circumstances work inextricibly together, and how difficult it is to discern any single cause of mental functioning, positive or negative, no matter how much we yearn for a simple, certain explanation.
But then, aren't we all hidden from one another, no matter how close we yearn to be?
Really, he added, the show's overriding theme is "nostalgia, and how we all yearn for our past and how that can be really destructive".
The BBC's Jane O'Brien asks why in today's dizzying digital world, where technology is hidden within smart phones and tablets, we yearn to see how things work.
Violence no matter how oppressed you may feel will never yield the trust and peace filled relationships we yearn for.
Apparently, we yearn for it, too.
Still we yearn to belong.
