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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?

Modern Wisdom

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The Power of Attraction in Children

In children we see memetic desire easily. As we get older, though, it seems that the the Memetic part of ourselves, we kind of like, bury it. It's not good to be known as an imitator in today's world where imitation has become a dirty word. If anything, we're probably more memetic than ever because of social media. But as adolts, it's not something that we talk about very often, but we call it out right.

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