It is futile to want to do away with desire, this is just opposing a weak and inauthentic desire to strong and presumably authentic desires, insofar as they are known. This late culture has elevated desire as authenticity to an ideal, for want of any other believable ideal. The desire to uncover the true nature of Xis a weak but authentic desire inseparable from consciousness itself, one that is easily elbowed aside. It is, however, all you have to go on, even just to see the malleability and falseness of latent claims to authenticity that go by way of the social self, the very index of the inauthentic.