Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Not every desire becomes a priority, but our deepest desires inform those priorities, especially if we believe Mahatma Gandhi’s “action expresses priority.”
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
TO GET TO the root of why ambition and goal-setting don’t quite deliver the happiness they promise, we need to look a little more deeply at how we tend to desire. ‘Get what you want’ remains a mantra of modern living, as if we each had the birthright to accumulate whatever we think will make us happy.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
His ideas do not magically make us stop being mimetic. The mimetic theory gives us a framework to avoid situations that inspire debilitating desires; what type of person to avoid and who to keep close
Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
“Girard discovered that we come to desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, nor as a decree of our illusory and sovereign self, but through imitation.”