Motherhood and mimetic theory

We can choose camps, or we can escape.

Mimetic Theory

My very favorite books are the kind that make you throw them across the room because of their profundity (am I the only one who does this?). The one that elicited this perhaps erratic response most in me this year was hands-down Luke Burgis’ Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life. It left me wide-eyed, feeling my view of the…