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> How do you abolish desire?

1. Create fear of the thing that would otherwise be desired. Associate it with badness. This is a slow but relentless form of operant conditioning, which can be done entirely using words and stories.

2. Create substitute and symbolic objects of desire, in order to redirect effort. The purest of these is money.




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