#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Luke Burgis is an entrepreneur and author.

We feel like we are in charge of our wants. Like we're the creator of our desires. But Rene Girard's theory of Mimetic Desire suggests an alternative - all we are doing is copying and modelling other people's wants, and then spitting them back out as our own.

Expect to learn why you're going to die of a Brazilian butt lift, why mimesis is a kind of alchemy, how mimetic desires cause people to become scapegoats, why Lamborghini's creation story is explained by Rene Girard and much more...

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0:00.0	What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Luke Burgess,
0:05.3	he's an entrepreneur and an author, and we are talking about why we want what we want.
0:10.2	We feel like we're in charge of our wants, right? Like we're the creator of our desires.
0:14.8	But René Gerard's theory of mimetic desires suggests an alternative.
0:18.8	All we're doing is copying and modeling other people's wants,
0:22.0	and then spitting them back out as our own.
0:24.4	Today, expect to learn why you're going to die of a Brazilian but left over and over again.
0:30.3	Why Mimesis is a kind of alchemy, how mimetic desires cause people to become scapegoats,
0:35.3	why Lamborghini's creation story is explained by René Gerard, and much more.
0:41.8	This is another red pill to take. Sadly, mimetic desires seem to have all the hallmarks of
0:47.4	something I don't want to be true, and yet almost definitely probably is.
0:52.9	So, yes, enjoy emerging from this conversation,
0:57.2	even less under the comfortable blanket of ignorance than you were right now.
1:04.2	In other news. Before I get to other news, I'm going away this week.
1:10.0	I'm going away to Ibiza. So this Saturday, there is no episode.
1:13.2	I'm sorry, but even I need a holiday, and after 15 months of unrelenting three episodes a week,
1:19.4	you're just getting two. So Monday, Thursday next week, but no Saturday episodes for the next couple.
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