Mimetic Desire

https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-69-memetic-desire/ 0:00 Intro 1:22 What is mimetic rivalry? memtic desire. 2:48 Mimicry as an internal set of neurosis. 5:05 What we want is the attention and control that someone else wanted first. 7:14 If somebody else wants something, our survival depends on us getting to it first. 9:47 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. 11:28 Accelerationism is a means to break out of the deadlock of capitalism. 12:56 All of our focus is now embodied in winning the object. 14:46 If the system is good enough, it will disperse the energies. 16:37 How capitalism fits into all of this.