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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?

Modern Wisdom

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Identify Your Models, Positive and Negative

The audience that listens to this show ar terrifyingly reasonable. And unbelievably sensible. They're happy, too, to swallow whatever sort of uncomfortable truths they need to. So let's say that someone's listening and they want to become a sovereign individual. Whata of the tactics that they can use to notice when they've been mimetically high jacked? Yes, i think as you become aware of it, you can actually name some of your models, positive and negative. Any time you're able to name something, just kind of like emotions, you gain some control over them.

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