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Thick Desires, Political Atheism, and Living an Anti-Mimetic Life
The Art of Manliness
Memetic Desire: A Theory of Why We Want the Things We Want
We had Brett on the podcast a few years ago to talk about your book Wanting. It introduces readers to a theory of why we want the things we want. And this theory is called memetic desire, and it's at the root of human culture. We choose sometimes what to pay attention to based on what other people are paying attention to as well.
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