BONUS: Why Do We Want What We Want? | Guest: Luke Burgis

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today we're joined by Luke Burgis, author of "Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life," to discuss where our desires come from and how we can better shape them. We discuss his article, "The Three City Problem of Modern Life," in which he expands on the idea, "What does Athens (reason) have to do with Jerusalem (faith)?" by adding a third city to the discussion: Silicon Valley (technology) and proposing that this Silicon Valley "city" has changed our relationships with reason and faith. Then, we talk about mimetic desire: what it is, why it's important, and how we can respond to our own desires based on where they come from. We define "disruptive empathy" and "trendy narcissism" and talk about how real love ties into all of this. WE'RE GIVING AWAY 5 SIGNED COPIES OF LUKE'S BOOK! To enter: Head to YouTube when this episode goes live there at 6pm ET Make sure you're subscribed Comment on this video that you want to enter the giveaway and your Instagram handle so we can DM you for your address --- Timecodes: [01:15] Intro [03:07] "The Three City Problem of Modern Life" [18:42] Mimetic desire [25:27] Does technology lead to mimetic desire? [29:47] Defining love [33:04] Disruptive empathy [39:44] Mimetic future & what we will want tomorrow [42:13] Advice from "Wanting" [45:03] Giveaway --- Today's Sponsors: Annie's Kit Clubs — all subscriptions are month-to-month, and you can cancel anytime! Go to AnniesKitClubs.com/ALLIE and get your first month 75% off! CrowdHealth — get your first 6 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Good Ranchers — change the way you shop for meat today by visiting GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE and use promo code 'ALLIE' to save $30 off your order AND 2lbs of ground beef free (October-only special)! My Patriot Supply — prepare yourself for anything with long-term emergency food storage. Go to PrepareWithAllie.com to save 20% on your 3-Month Emergency Food Kit. --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where do our desires come from? Do we genuinely organically want the things that we want or do we
0:07.0	just want them because other people want them? I've been asking this question a lot over the past few
0:12.4	months since I heard about the book that we are going to talk about today and it's called
0:17.7	Wanting, the power of memetic desire in everyday life by Luke Burgess. I found him on Twitter
0:24.4	and I found the things that he was talking about, the questions that he was answering. So
0:29.0	interesting and it's really made me think about why I want the things that I do and really
0:35.4	analyze my desires through the prism of my values and that is what we are going to discuss with
0:42.0	this author. I know that you are going to find this conversation fascinating and hopefully
0:47.1	get a lot out of it. We're also doing a giveaway with his book so we'll talk about at the end of
0:51.7	this conversation but no more introduction. I want you to hear this. This episode is brought to you
0:57.2	by our friends at GoodRangers. Go to GoodRangers.com slash Allie that's GoodRangers.com slash Allie.
1:02.8	All right now without further ado here's our new friend Luke Burgess.
1:15.9	Luke, thanks so much for joining us. Can you first tell everyone who may not know who you are and
1:20.4	what you do? Hey Allie, good to be with you. Sure. I'm entrepreneur and residence at the
1:24.8	Catholic University of America and Washington DC and I spent my 20s in Silicon Valley. I was
1:30.5	never actually in the valley. I was in Southern California founding companies and it was kind of
1:35.2	the trendy narcissism of my day to be an entrepreneur and to look for quick exits to make as much
1:42.6	money as possible rather than being an Instagram influencer or a TikTok influencer. That was it for me.
1:47.3	Yeah. And I did that throughout my 20s. I had some successes and some failures but I got to the
1:52.4	end where I had a blown up business deal and I realized that I was really craving something that
1:58.7	I wasn't able to find in that culture. There weren't any people around me that had sort of any
2:06.5	kind of spiritual desires and those things were bubbling up in me. It was really dissatisfied
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