desire & utopia

If one were to follow the trajectory of a desire as far as possible, one would eventually cross a horizon into another world. There's a quasi-utopia implicit in every desire -- what we desire isn't merely the immediate object, but a world in which having the object is at least possible. This becomes most clear with regard to unattainable desires -- even when one realizes one will never obtain the object, one nevertheless continues to long for a world in which having that object is possible.