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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
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In the second episode of the Book Schmooze podcast we babble about the book "Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life" by Luke Burgis. The book is based on the so called "Mimetic Theory" by René Girard which we also discuss.
Chapters
1. Intro to WANTING (00:00:00)
2. A little bit about Luke Burgis (00:01:46)
3. Basics of mimetic desire and its discoverer Rene Girard (00:05:09)
4. Peter Thiel and mimesis (00:12:44)
5. Synopsis (00:18:36)
6. SUPER IMPORTANT: the scapegoat mechanism (00:23:51)
7. Summary Part 2 (00:29:33)
8. Desire and the Devil (00:36:41)
9. Pitfalls of goal setting (00:41:54)
10. The Romantic Liar (00:44:16)
11. Girard vs Marx (00:46:33)
12. The need for hierarchical structures (00:51:07)
13. Alexej's models (00:52:58)
14. Anna's models (or lack thereof) (01:04:13)
15. Mimetic desire vs mimetic rivalry? (01:26:00)
16. Favourite quotes from WANTING (01:29:24)
17. "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" (01:32:20)
18. Holacracy (01:34:45)
19. Wisdom and Madness of Crowds (01:35:45)
20. The Nazis and the Jews (01:38:59)
21. Reverse Scapegoat Mechanism (01:43:39)
22. We don't want to get back to the Scapegoat Mechanism (01:47:22)
23. How to be Anti-Mimetic (01:54:17)
24. Filter Bubbles (01:58:55)
25. TRUTH (02:01:37)
26. Lean Startup methodology (02:03:25)
27. "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want" (02:10:47)
28. Anna at the restaurant and Alexej's food rant (02:14:38)
29. Fascinating theories by Girard (02:19:42)
30. Omega Wolf Story (02:27:34)
31. Other interesting stuff derived from Mimetic Theory (02:33:40)
32. Jesus Christ (02:40:21)
33. Cool principle from the Talmud (02:47:06)
34. Evolutionary Reason for Mimesis (02:49:10)
35. Our fulfillment stories (02:52:52)
36. Is it RAD or is it WHACK??? (03:03:21)
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