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#82 Jonathan Bi | Mimetic Desire, Money, and Living a Meaningful Life

Money Minded

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Gerard's Theory of Individuality

Jonathan Safran Foer: Gerard wanted it written on his tombstone, that he're like Kierkegaard and be an individual. He says we are so helplessly intertwined as social creatures that it doesn't even make sense to be an individual in the way that modern society thinks of that end. "What if the pursuit of originality leads us to falsehood or perhaps even worse trivialities? That's a weird requirement"

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