Question for you all.

[nav_w1]

I've been reading René Girard's book 'I See Satan Fall Like Lightning' recently and he discusses an interesting idea called "mimetic desire".

Basically, the theory says that we innately have an individual drive to desire, but we don't know what to desire, so we look to others so they can confirm something worthy of desiring for us. We then mimic what they desire and call it our own.

I only mention this because I've seen my interest in girls change since being in lookism/blackpill internet circles. For example, I can't find "thicc" girls attractive the way I used to, even a little chubby is off-putting on a girl to me now but I was never like this before. Obviously, in the PSL world any girl above 15% bf is called a landwhale, so I think I've seen that people here value a girl being slim and copied it into what I desire myself.

Anyone else noticed anything similar? Curious for your thoughts.

 

[HarrierDuBois]

Herd behaviour ngl.

 

[nav_w1]

Herd behaviour ngl.

Do you really think you decided your own values?

 

[HarrierDuBois]

Do you really think you decided your own values?

A newborn can determine which face looks better out of two examples.

Fat worship in modern society is cope, no one finds it attractive.

 

[nav_w1]

A newborn can determine which face looks better out of two examples.

Fat worship in modern society is cope, no one finds it attractive.

But the baby didn't decide this for themselves. If they did, you would expect to see more variation in the face that babies think looks better. Obviously there's a biological element to desire, which you seem to be describing (and I agree), but I don't think that desire has to be sustained biologically, it can be sustained by mimicry.

 

[HarrierDuBois]

But the baby didn't decide this for themselves. If they did, you would expect to see more variation in the face that babies think looks better. Obviously there's a biological element to desire, which you seem to be describing (and I agree), but I don't think that desire has to be sustained biologically, it can be sustained by mimicry.

I disagree, although I don't know shit about the subject. The idea that your preferance could be directed towards features less ideal for survival only through herd mentality seems illogical.

 

[IhateDentists]

But the baby didn't decide this for themselves. If they did, you would expect to see more variation in the face that babies think looks better. Obviously there's a biological element to desire, which you seem to be describing (and I agree), but I don't think that desire has to be sustained biologically, it can be sustained by mimicry.

It’s both just like genes and environment cohexist