i stumbled upon this.this text pricks me enough to make me want to do something about it: T hose who assume (often unconsciously) that it is impossible to achieve their life's desires-and, thus, that it is futile to fight for themselves --usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead. They may appear to engage in self-directed activity, but in reality they have accepted alienation from their desires as a way of life. All subjugations of personal desires to the dictates of a cause or ideology are reactionary no matter how "revolutionary" the actions arising from such subjugations may appear.