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To the mimesis/prophesy question, absolutely—our fascination with the prophetic holds in both hereditary & mutable status models.

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Was happy to read another great, delightfully great essay, Natasha-thank you!

While I fully agree(or feel as if almost "my own") last two quotes-I've more questions about some other ones, and several of their basic assumptions, but as you might know by know I love having questions. I'll continue to think, no doubt.

I'll need to get back to the matryoshka scheme as well-because when I was studying it again yesterday, I saw a couple new things that I've missed before-one, being, looking at it-would it be true then to suppose that in certain instances, one can skip anything mimetic altogether to arrive at prophesy?

I also have another question -related but not sure fitting this discussion. Maybe afterwards sometime.

I also was reminded of this song-too simplistic, I know, yet I still love the video

Great weekend to you too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RY1f4QbbzA

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Maybe I missed something… there are plenty of times where people engage in creative endeavors because the very doing of it brings us pleasure. There are aspects of being a person that thrive on self affirmation through doing pleasurable behaviors.

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I think you may be illustrating it

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