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#479 - Johnathan Bi - Why Do Founders Love René Girard?

Modern Wisdom

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Memetic Theory

Gaining awareness of the social dimension of our elves and the logic of memesus, is tremendously helpful. It doesn't give you a the ability to ju snap your fingers and not be social creatures, but it does give you the foresight to see bad situations coming and potentially avoid it. And remember, metaphysial desire is simply a very prideful drive, riht, wanting to be greater than life. If you think that you can escape from memesus, from wanting recognition, then you really have an realized how deeply this drive is embedded into the human naturethat you would fundamentally be irrecognizable without it. Its just constitutive of what a human is. The solution isn

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