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19 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
“I think sometimes if something happens that is traumatic and tragic, like a serious war, even worse than the wars that we currently see in the world today, maybe it will take something like that to actually help people build something.”
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- 19 Aug 2026
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…Why doesn’t the negative contagion just get stronger and stronger and overwhelm everything, and we all drown in a sea of terribleness? The negative contagion and pessimism can’t go on forever. I think that there are cultural and societal release valves for that kind of thing. Vibe shifts happen. There’s the scapegoat mechanism. I don’t know if we’ll talk about Girard today. I think that there are things that correct. Sometimes we over-correct. I just don’t see the age of pessimism lasting. I think sometimes if something happens that is traumatic and tragic, like a serious war, even worse than the wars that we currently see in the world today, maybe it will take something like that to actually help people build something. It sounds a little bit paradoxical, but I think sometimes optimism can arise out of tragedy. Why does it seem in the data, at least, that the Anglo world is especially so unhappy?…
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