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Building a culture of #vocation by helping each person discover and live their unique and unrepeatable calling. The book: http://amzn.to/2Dx86YV

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🚨 The lineup for NOVITATE 2023 is announced! 🚨 I hope to have the opportunity to host you in Washington, DC, this November. open.substack.com/pub/antimimeti…


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A nice primer on René Girard's mimetic theory by @BishopBarron focused on social media, including an explanation and exhortation about the role that love plays in exiting unhealthy patterns of rivalrous desire. @WordOnFire angelusnews.com/voices/rene-gi…


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I was so stimulated by my podcast with @martyrmade today that, when we finished, I went ahead and wrote this entire newsletter—it explores some of our conversation topics, and I give my perspective on the Mimetic Muskomania. On acedia and its discontents: read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-noonday-…


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***New Martyr Made Substack episode*** Interview w/@lukeburgis, author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life. We discuss Rene Girard, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, scapegoating, and how technology accelerates mimetic conflict. Enjoy! martyrmade.substack.com/p/interview-wl…


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"Wanting is a thought-provoking book. It's also a deeply moral one." —The Sunday Times amazon.com/gp/product/125…


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Few know what they want. Fewer know why. Pre-order: bit.ly/wantingbook


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The latest edition of the Anti-Mimetic newsletter just dropped. Have you practiced Horizontal Decision-Rights Delegation? Of course you have—you just may not know it. This week I share an Anti-Mimetic Tactic that might save your life. Or your brain. read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-law-of-g…


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"The Internet sometimes seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of proving the social-contagion theories of René Girard." —Jody Bottum

lukeburgis's tweet image. "The Internet sometimes seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of proving the social-contagion theories of René Girard." —Jody Bottum

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Some key concepts from René Girard's Theory of Mimetic Desires, in pictures:

lukeburgis's tweet image. Some key concepts from René Girard's Theory of Mimetic Desires, in pictures:

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Mimetic Desire 101—A brief introduction to the most foundational part of René Girard's work. This edition of the Anti-Mimetic newsletter covers Stage 1 of the mimetic process. Stages 2-4 coming soon. Sign-up: read.lukeburgis.com/p/mimetic-desi…


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Empathy is inherently anti-mimetic. It’s the ability to share in another person’s experience—but without imitating them (their speech, beliefs, actions, feelings), and without necessarily identifying with them to the point that one’s own self-possession is lost.


Got up before the family for some quiet time with coffee, a book, and @Phish on #SiriusXM radio.

HCCDB's tweet image. Got up before the family for some quiet time with coffee, a book, and @Phish on #SiriusXM radio.


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I'm giving away 10 free signed copies of my first book, UNREPEATABLE: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person. Sign up on @goodreads here, and please share/#RT! #bookgiveaway #freebies goodreads.com/giveaway/show/…


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.@harari_yuval ends Sapiens: "Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires, the question facing us is...‘What do we want to want?’ Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven’t given it enough thought.” This book is the thought. lukeburgis.com/wanting


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Thanks to @MattSLeonard for this insightful interview with @lukeburgis and his co-author, Dr. Joshua Miller, on their book, Unrepeatable. (And not just because of the shout-outs to @CioccaCenter's work!) #humandignity #vocation matthewsleonard.com/096/


This is the sound of people passionately telling their #story, the first step to a healthy and thriving culture of #vocation in #catholic @camdendiocese


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