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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
The Scapegoat Mechanism Creates Group Cohesion
The one thing that seems to bind groups together more than anything else, like, the most identifiable and easiest thing to identify the group is who their enemy is. So i imagine in an individualistic society, this is n worse, right? Because you're so siloed out. Everybody is their meritocratic, utilitarian, objective metric of success that they can add to society. And this must make the scapeup mechanism even more so you got the collapse of grand narratives.
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