(It is a happy video, he doesn't fuck around and doesn't find out :-)
Thus I know that you only get to play with bears that you have hand reared from cubs. It also shapes my perception of humans. I end up thinking that every-one who would want to take a selfie with a bear would know this.
Which gets me thinking about René Girard and his theory of memetic desire. We don't have our own desires, we copy what others desire, even though they don't have the own authentic desires and are themselves copying the desires of others... René Girard takes this too far, and makes it a theory of everything.
I guess that memetic desire works as an explanation here. Daft tourist "wants" a selfie with a bear. How come they don't know the danger? They have copied what they "want" from other people. And it is a superficial copying that doesn't include copying the knowledge of the dangers.
happytoes 0 points 2 weeks ago
I like watching videos of people playing with charismatic megafauna. So naturally I see videos like this

Why I don’t go in with the brown bears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Jxb4X9biyU
(It is a happy video, he doesn't fuck around and doesn't find out :-)
Thus I know that you only get to play with bears that you have hand reared from cubs. It also shapes my perception of humans. I end up thinking that every-one who would want to take a selfie with a bear would know this.
Which gets me thinking about René Girard and his theory of memetic desire. We don't have our own desires, we copy what others desire, even though they don't have the own authentic desires and are themselves copying the desires of others... René Girard takes this too far, and makes it a theory of everything.
I guess that memetic desire works as an explanation here. Daft tourist "wants" a selfie with a bear. How come they don't know the danger? They have copied what they "want" from other people. And it is a superficial copying that doesn't include copying the knowledge of the dangers.