7 search results for "Luke Burgis"

1. tech engineers desire Aug 2021
   engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments … happens in labs, with cold, lifeless instruments … use
   #authority #technology #society #culture
2. sympathy is easier than empathy Aug 2021
   Sympathy is far easier to practice than empathy, sharing the same root, they both come from the Greek word pathos, which roughly means “feeling.”
   #sympathy #empathy #greek #desires #mirroring
3. describing core motivational drives Aug 2021
   A motivational drive is a specific and enduring behavioral energy that has oriented you throughout your life to achieve a distinct pattern of
   #archetypes
4. cult of experts Aug 2021
   The Cult of Experts. “The people more competent than we are in innumerable fields of endeavor,” (Girard), with their “Follow These Five Steps”
   #experts #learning #mimetic
5. wanting what we already have Aug 2021
   “People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience—even of silence—by choice … The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating
   #sufficiency #choice #conformity
6. spiral of silence Aug 2021
   The German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” in 1974 to refer to a phenomenon that we see often
   #phenomenology #confidence
7. directed desires kulturnost and consumption Aug 2021
   Russian scholars Catriona Kelly and Vadim Volkov have pointed out in their essay “Directed Desires: Kul’turnost’ and Consumption” that the
   #authority #change