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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Hierarchy of Needs in the Universe of Desire?
Most people think that they're e conscious agents of their own wants and desires. And then if determinism hasn't put them in the ground, memetic desire can come and hammer the nail into the coffin to throw a bunch of concrete on top of it. But i would say that there's no hierarchy at all in the in the universe of desire, if you will, there is no hierarchy. We spend most of our lives kind of bouncing like pinballs in a pinball machine, from from different models and from different desires to the next. That's one of the reasons this import, to be able to see our memetic nature and to lay over some structure has been important for me
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