Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion

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Enhanced with helpful links, visit conversationswither.com. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am sitting here personally with Luke Burgess, one of my favorite current thinkers. He's author of the best selling book, Wanting, and his recent work is just coming out. It is called The One and the Ninety Nine. Forging identity in the age of social contagion. Luke

Welcome. Thanks for having me, Tyler. I should add you are also d director and founder of the Clooney Institute. Yes. And what is your professoral Title? I'm assistant professor of practice in the business school at Catholic University. Great. I have questions about your latest book and your thought more generally. Is the current age of pessimism and despair ending? I think it might get worse before it gets better. I hope it ends. There's been a lot of talk among friends of mine who are very pro tech, tech accelerationists, that the Pope is going to really come down on tech.

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