Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire

Desire is a positive thing. It's one of the things that makes us human. I think of desire like the the parable of the of the two wolves, right? You know, we all have these two wolves inside of us that are kind of at war. And you know, you need to sort of find out

Which one of those wolves to starve and which one of those wolves to feed. And it's not always easy to tell which one is which when it comes to the things that we want, when it comes to our desires. I actually believe that we should feed those enduring desires. Um and that those enduring desires.

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