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Why Everyone Wants the Same Things
- The truth is that we want most things according to how other people model the value of those things to us. These people are models of desire.
from What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get by Luke Burgis
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- It has some psychological ground, too: according to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, we tend to want things simply because other people want them. Human desire is not an autonomous process but a collective one — this is how we decide what we care about.
from The Value of a Velvet Rope: Effects of Hype and Exclusivity on Launch Strategies by Jordan Odinsky
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- It’s revealing to think of mimetic desire along a continuum. Certain people and organizational cultures are more prone to mimesis than others. And one thing is clear, on a societal level: any society in which people are no longer struggling with scarcity but coping with abundance will undergo an explosion of mimetic desire. In this universe of desi... See more
from Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire by read.lukeburgis.com
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