I had to learn about Desiderata the hard way. And nope, I am
not talking about the 1927 Poem although if you
know it you are in a better position to kinda understand what I will be going
on about in the next couple of sentences because the poem refers to ‘desired
things’.
"Change in the world can be initiated in two ways. We can act
because we want to move away from a situation we do not like, or we can act towards
an imagined and desired situation. However, when trying to effect these
changes, unfortunate situations arise where the common foundation in solving
the existing problems is focusing on only that-which-is (description and
explanation), verses that-which-ought-to-be (ethics and morality) without much consideration
for that-which-is-desired (desiderata).
