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#138 Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What happens when you successfully reach a desire

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. And and that's where things get tricky with dominant hierarchies as that they're very liquid, because they, they, the models can change. We can just adopt a new model. There's just there's simply no shortage of models the they're basically infinite.

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