How Can Mimetic Desire Affect Attraction?

How can mimetic desire help us understand why we're attracted to certain people more than others? Like don't piccup artists, sort of like, effectively exploit this or hack our human desire? Ye, what's the guy's name who wrote t the art of the pickup? Ah, i forget. This book came out probably 15 years ago, but it's about that sort of secret community of pickup artists that lived in the hollywood hills. And one of the very specific tactics that they talk about in that book is essentially the idea of the wing man. They go so far as to basely suggest hire one of your girl friends to like, be an actor and act like she's