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The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi

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Jerard: The modern need or urge to be unique is just as socially determined as the most outrageous forms of conformity. In fact, gerard himself identifies two species of memetic desire. One is called physical desire, and that's a desire to experience. And the other, metaphysical desire, is what people really think aboutwhen they say memetic desire,. and that's the desire to be.

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