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Conor Gallagher's avatar

Wow. Excellent article Luke.

I've been resisting, for the sake of spending time with my loved ones, but I'm ordering your book, and going to start in on Girard's catalogue as well.

After reading this article, mimesis has gone from some interesting, but abstract concept that would be "nice to know about", but now I feel it's more likely to be the kind of thing that alters my worldview significantly and that I won't be able to help bringing up in conversations.

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Anton Cebalo's avatar

A fun article, really enjoyed it. Especially like the word 'Celebristan,' I think most of social media-induced FOMO we feel nowadays falls on this plane, honestly. But I think it creates strong feelings of inferiority, and so many people I talk to feel useless in relation to it as if their lives are not "fulfilled enough" with these implanted desires they want satiated. It also possesses this algorithmically-infused addictive quality to it.

So, there is something alien in desire-production today, and I've been grappling with just turning so much of it off because it depresses me, as if my life is not "good enough." The internet is dominated by Celebristan and it can make you feel permanently behind an objective not of your own choosing.

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