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Mimetic desire

One of my favorite things in life is to discover counterintuitive truths. Hence, I was happy to recently learn about mimetic desire, as discovered by the French polymath René Gerard. Let me reproduce some real zingers from the article:  We borrow our desires from others. Far from being autonomous, our desire for a certain objectContinue reading “Mimetic desire”

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