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Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection
- carsongross 10y agoGirard will be looked back on as a Father of the Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzF2OG2ejI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzF2OG2ejI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk
- johnmarius 10y ago“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and who turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” But how do these others desire in the first place? Have the first desires begun with imitating animals?
- danharaj 10y agoThe most basic desires are rooted in being a social animal. Food, water, sleep, comfort, shelter, bonding, play.
- jameslk 10y agoThere's been some criticism leveled against Girard's work wrt it's scientific credibility[0]. Has there been any studies on mimetic desire/conflict? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Girard#Use_of_evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Girard#Use_of_evidence