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Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire

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A short introduction to why we want the things we want.

Nearly everyone (unconsciously) assumes there’s a straight line between them and the things they want. > > I wake up one day and “suddenly” decide that I want to run a marathon—amazingly, all of my friends had a similar realization when they hit their mid-thirties, too. > > I get the brilliant idea that Substack is objectively the best publishing platform for my long-form essay writing, based on all the “data”—right around the time that everyone else and their mother seems to be arriving at the same conclusion. >> I decide to get a dog during Covid because, well, I’ve been wanting a dog…

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