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#138 Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
We All Have a Hierarchy of Desire
Most of us have a michellan star system. And we can change the michellan system just depending on, like, you know, what system we into. The scary thing about memetic desire is that if we adopt a model of desire, ah, we begin to pursue the things that our model is pursuing. So it's almost aa fixation witho our ability to convince ourselves that what we want is the one thing that we can't have - which is basically a form of massicism.
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