Dr. Daniel Crosby - Wanting Well

What is “manufactured desire” and what sinister role does it often play in contemporary life?

Why is our tendency to let others’ influence our decisions a dramatic outlier from much of the Animal Kingdom?

What is French Theorist René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and why can understanding it help inform the ways in which we make important decisions?

Luke Burgis, one of Girard’s disciples, categorizes desires as either thin or thick. What distinguishes the two types of desire and why is this delineation so important?

What are a series of questions you can ask yourself to parse whether the desire in question is thin or thick?