Are You Happy With Your Life?

so what is theic desire theic desire means that we're adopting another person's desire as our own usually without even realizing that we're doing it so social media has given us millions of memetic models that we now have to contend with some people have went from having 10 mimetic models to now having a million and we haven't quite come to grips as a culture with what that means for mental and emotional health there are two kinds of mimetic models the first kind is called an external mediator of Desire these are models that are outside of our world whether because they exist in a different social sphere than we do there's no possibility of Us coming into contact with them and certainly not becoming Rivals with them they're in some sense outside of our world of Desire outside of our world of competition now these external models of Desire can be real or they can be fictional the other kind of model is inside of our world called internal mediators of Desire these are people that we do come into contact with and there is a possibility of conflict or rivalry with these people these are people that are in our family these are people in our workplace these are people that could even be our friends it's easy easier to compare ourselves to them these are the kinds of people that we look to as benchmarks and we're far more likely to be envious of somebody that we went to high school with who now has a great job and a beautiful spouse than we are to be envious of the richest person in the world [Music]