Desire manipulates reason more than reason guides desire.

Desire sets the direction; reason merely builds the road. When desire seeks growth, reason designs the future.

Human history is often described as a progression of rational structures—laws, sciences, political systems—yet beneath every system lies a hidden architecture of desire. Nations are not built because reason dictates their inevitability; they emerge because individuals longed for power, order, or belonging. Markets are not sustained by pure calculation; they are animated by ambition, fear, and the pursuit of advantage. Even science, often regarded as the triumph of reason, is driven first by the desire to know, to control, or to overcome uncertainty. Without this underlying current, reason would have no direction to move.