Burgis: Social media eliminates the boundary between internal and external desire models
Luke Burgis · Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire · May 31, 2022 · at 59:54
Author Luke Burgis explains to Shane Parrish how social platforms transform distant celebrities into internal mediators of mimetic desire.
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“With social media, with modern technology, that line between the external models of desire and internal is Is, is all but gone. Because it's almost as if everybody can be an internal model of desire now.”
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