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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
Memesis Is to Psychology What Gravity Is to Physics?
Memetic desire is to psychology what gravity is to physics. It was discovered by a french academic named rene gerard, who came to the state shortly after world war two. He believed that literature held deep anthropological truths inside of it. And he noticed that all the characters in these novels, none of them want spontaneously,. Like their desires don't arise out of the blue. In fact, imitation is like hard wire into into what it means to be human.
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