Ep 337: Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
The Power of Desire
I'm always deeply skeptical of saying like things are better in the past than they are today and my instinct is to say well probably not true. But what I will say is that there's a new paradigm that we're in where you know Mimesis has been hypercharged due to things like social media. We're being exposed to more than we can simply handle, he says. The message this exposure sends to people is that there is no such thing as the fulfillment of desire because how could you possibly fulfill a billion?
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