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Here is a far better written intro to Rene Girard [0], the article linked is worst kind of overwritten academic verbiage with nothing substantive to say, almost

• 082349872349872 6y ago
  Feudalism (and we still have monarchies to this day cough KSA cough) in tl;dr is the notion that social relations between homo sapiens should be built on the same asymmetric principles as social relations in other large herding domesticated species. Can we come up with better, more primate, or even more human, systems? I would claim we could, by swapping reflexive antisymmetric transitive relations for reflexive symmetric transitive ones (as those of us with T-V distinguishing languages have largely done), but nearly a half century of people watching has convinced me there exist large numbers of people who are perfectly happy to be servile to some as long as they get to be arrogant to yet others.
• motohagiography 6y ago
  Seconded. Danco's summary of Girard is fantastic. I don't look forward to the thoughts of many people, but his substack newsletter is worth a read as well. He's one of the few smart people still talking.
• Alester 6y ago
  Of course, it was not this writer's intention to provide an introduction to René Girard. A lot of those are tendentious and dull, and this piece is witty and fun. He's discussing a new book instead.