'Desire can't be mimetic—everyone wants to be different': perfect self-own meme
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-26
A Girardian joke doing the rounds: 'There's no way desire is mimetic. Everyone wants to be different.' The desire to be different is itself mimetic—a perfectly self-refuting take that the quote-tweeters are celebrating with knowing agreement.
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