NFD's: Non-Fungible Desires?

Guest contributor Jacob Mørch on NFT's and Mimetic Desire

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Luke here. I’ve invited a special guest contributor to weigh in on NFT’s today, and you will find his fascinating piece below (Jacob spent $30,000 to earn his home-made “NFT MBA” in less than 4 weeks: that’s called skin in the game).

I’ve always indulged myself in a nerdy Girardian moment when I hear the term NFT (which stands for “Non-Fungible Token”) because it immediately calls to mind the idea of Fungible Desire—which isn’t a bad way to describe what mimetic desire is.

Most of our desires are not fixed and stable but rather completely fungible, affected by the models that we’ve allowed to take precedent in our lives.

Of course, if anyone actually thought that they were doing this then the whole game would breakdown into some highly advanced form of LARP’ing. And maybe that’s where we’re at right now. The Mimetic Desire Wars.

The word fungible, just in case anyone forgot by now, means “able to replace or be replaced by another identical item; mutually interc…