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The Nature of Mimetic Desire with Rob Henderson (WiM351)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Importance of Mimesis

Mimesis is scumping along the lines of imitation, how we come to want to imitate what others want. This has the capacity to potentially spiral out of control and gradually over time, we ended up wanting to want to do the same thing. And society can unravel as a result of this and this leads to that sort of scapegoat mechanism and this sort of re-establish is peace.

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