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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
Memetic Crisis - What's the Release Valve?
When mimesus makes its way through a social group, it leads to group becoming more homogeneous. Gerard found that at the root of a a lot of societal crises is like, out of control memetic desire. In everybody's kind of looking to everybody else and reacting to everybody. It happens because people are imitating one another in conflict and aggression.
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