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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
The Paradox of Choice and the Collapse of Grand Narratives
In an individualistic society, the collapse of grand narratives and the rise of the scapeup mechanism leads to a worse society because people are more siloed out and focused on their own individualistic metrics of success./nThe paradox of choice leads people to coheze with each other around their interests, which is the only thing that binds them together in an individualistic society.
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