I think he's trying to differentiate between intrinsic desires (creativity, passions) and compulsive desires (spiritual junk food of various flavours). I do thi

I think he's trying to differentiate between intrinsic desires (creativity, passions) and compulsive desires (spiritual junk food of various flavours). I do think he goes too deep into purple prose though, forgetting that poetic language in philosophy is usually either referential or narrative, but this article is using purple prose in an explanatory fashion which often reads badly imo.