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Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire and Getting What You Want in Life

The Daily Stoic

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What Gerard Discovered in Classical Literature

Ryani: gerard was a genius in the way we don't only think of geniuses. He discovered, or saw memetic desire in classic literature. And he noticed that some of the greatest novels in history were highly mometicke if you follow ther their arc through these stories,. they never have any desires just spontaneously. We have this idea of spontaneous desire, but gerard a that these characters in the novels had their desires modelled to them by other characters.

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