The older I get the more I realize everything comes back to the things we did as teenagers in bedrooms. What he's trying to say is you need to start that arsenal blog again. Yeah, and so my lady writing writing is a thick desire for yeah I love to writeI was trying to write books when I was like five and I was asking her to illustrate them from me And it's only been in the last six or seven years that I've taken that seriously.
Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes.
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:02:33) - Meme of the Week
- (00:04:18) - Jack & Luke’s Collab
- (00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis
- (00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory
- (00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere
- (00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire
- (00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire
- (00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters
- (00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire
- (00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics
- (00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires
- (00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained
- (00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural
- (00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself
- (00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire
- (00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard
- (00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society
- (00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect
- (01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm
- (01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works
- (01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception
- (01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire
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