The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi
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Understanding Memetic Theory
i've often been asked, how does understanding memetic theory change you as a person? Does it rapidly just make you not memetic? And the answer is no. But i think that it's not unfair to interpret these two desires on any one of our pursuits as in some sense competing for real estate. I think people who are really ambitious and prideful, they naturallyyou know, thankful ty, tend to fail at a lot of things. The opposite is allso true, i think, is getting close to what you thought would grant you autonomy.
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