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Luke Burgis - Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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Is There a Balance Between a Thin Desire and a Thick Desire?

LZ Granderson: How can we motivate people and move humanity forward without unleashing cycles of my medic desire that are ultimately destructive? LZ: One way out of the traps of the medic desire is to have some kind of a transcendent good that we're pursuing. LZ: I think it seems to me like we sort of, we lack sort of transcendent values in our society. And you know, the one thing that you could do better than anybody else in the world can for sure is, you know, BP and me, Luke.

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