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Ep 337: Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
The Importance of External Mediators
vernaisurard said that we are affected by people who model desires to us which he also calls mediators of desire in other words a mediator is someone who kind of stands between us and some object. There are two major kinds of models in our worlds the first kind which used to be the most common kind of model and i say used to be celebrities but now it's more like social media. We have literally hundreds of millions of potential models that they can choose from or invade their minds, says Vernaisurard. You know you've written a lot about external mediators and internal mediators or the terms you use celebrity stun and fresh medicine I'd like to elaborate
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