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The Philosophy of Rene Girard, Luke Burgis
Rebel Wisdom
Is There Any Order to Desires?
Mian gerard: Human beings are nemetic creaturesam that we look to someone or something outside of ourselves to help us orient our desires. He says there have been certain models of desire that help orient human desire, right? The ten commandments are an example of that; they sort of guide what is desirable and what’s not so desirable. A lot of the strange political things that are playing out, you know, not only in the us, but around the world, am, stem from this very, this very problem where everybody's identity a now is derived from their enemies, or from what they're against," he writes.
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