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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
The Nature of Desire Is Memetic Desire
Ean Helkim is the author of a book about why our desires aren't our own. He says that we always look to other people, we look to models who help us understand what to want. Social media platforms like instagram are essentially just these machines of generating desires - memetic desires. But very few people are kind of aware that there is such a thing as mometic desire. Luke burgess: We have this modern, hyper individualistic view of ourselves and why we want the things that we want.
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