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Wanting the Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgess

This is another in the everything's going to hell genre. An i am not sure it has much to add to the subject. There were several points where i considered abandoning it. But i have a soft spot for people who think that reading will solve all our problems. In a sense, bowerline is a disciple of marshal mc luan, though he never mentions him by name. His argument is that now that kids have gone from reading great works of literature to media that is shallow and superficial, they have themselves become shallow and superficial. They are instead completely at the mercy of simplistic and mimetically driven emotions. Speaking of which, wanting the power of mimetic desire in everyday life

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