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#138 Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Does Social Media Affect Us?

i ask my students to name their top five models of desire, the top five that are influencing them. i'll get answers like this particular instagram or tiktok influencer in asia. Think about that. Now we have billionsf of models of desire rather than a handful. And i just don't think that we've really come to grips yet with what that is done to to humanity. It's taken the desire round the world and essentially shrunken them down and put them onto the head of a pin - if we're big scrollers on social media. We don't have any boundaries the desires arer.

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