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Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)

Infinite Loops

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What Is Status Seeking?

Sorrows: I would argue memetic theory actually goes deeper than this mirror status signaling while being able to explain all the interesting parts of this type of outlook. This is really a cataclysmic and revolutionary in a good and bad, but mostly a terrifying sense of a moral framework to build a social theory off. What does modernity think normative value derives from? One answer is reason, and that's the enlightenment. That's why we have elections that the individual can through his or her own power reason what is the good without the interference of others. The other I would say is romanticism are intuitions are deep sense feeling. How does that five year old boy over there know that

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