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An Everyday Mercy
The significance of a single loving act
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The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
The Wheels Keep on Turning—and the anti-mimetic breaks are breaking.
Jan 14 • 
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Your Personal Occam's Razor
Rescued from the confusion and indistinction of faceless crowds.
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The Erosion of Free Will: Why Society's Loss of Belief in Freedom is Dangerous
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The Versus Everyone Verses
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Your Personal Occam's Razor
Oct 7, 2022 • Luke Burgis
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How to Craft an Anti-Mimetic Career
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Mimetic Desire 101
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The Noonday Demon—Our Metaphysical Laziness
The Chernobyl Effect, Acedia, and the Mysterious Envy of Birds
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The Loneliness of Pauline Kael's Opinions
A film critic with the courage to judge.
Jun 5 • 
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The Digest #3
5 new things I’m seeing, reading, doing, contemplating, or wanting.
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How to Craft an Anti-Mimetic Career
4 Practical Tactics for Discerning a Better Way Forward
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The Versus Everyone Verses
Reflections on "man against mass society"—and the symbols and passageways of hope.
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My Life-Saving Lesson from A Hitman
Disruptive Empathy can break in and change the vector of even the most dangerous cycles.
May 13 • 
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The Ride of Family and Emotional Systems—and the Drive Toward a Real Self
The truth is that most people ride the emotional systems they are embedded in without understanding how they really work.
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Anti-Mimetic
Anti-Mimetic
On becoming who we are in a mimetic world.
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On becoming who we are in a mimetic world.

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