
Ep. 21: Luke Burgis: The Economy of Desire: Rene Girard on Commerce and our Everyday Life
The Moral Imagination
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Why Do You Think Gerard Matters?
Luke Burgess: I think for example, if somebody talks about a book that they've read and they're talking about the book, I mean, I have immediate memetic desire. Not everybody's sort of judgment score is probably equal in your world. It's not about Gerard, it's actually why I'd prefer not to make a Gerard Gerard Gerard all the time. He says we can start with an examination of conscious and a look at how this operates in my family, in my workplace, in my school, in my town,. And then we can extrapolate from there and see the way that this works in the broader culture.
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