The Power of Memes

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The book came out in 2021 the book right Lou 2021 yep summer 2021 yeah You'll be a classic man and people refer back to that well, I appreciate it. It just feels like the way in which the world is behaving right now like that is the exponential force in most of the things we talk about on this podcast. The connectivity that now exists that exposes that and obviously rides it up and down and creates this mad volatility is Like it came out at the perfect time Depending on how you look at it to help us kind of make sense of what was happening in the world.

Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:33) - Meme of the Week
(00:04:18) - Jack & Luke’s Collab
(00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis
(00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory
(00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere
(00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire
(00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire
(00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters
(00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire
(00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics
(00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires
(00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained
(00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural
(00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself
(00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire
(00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard
(00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society
(00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect
(01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm
(01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works
(01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception
(01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire

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