I am 90% through Wanting and it has also blown my mind. I knew a little about mimetic desire, but not the ins and outs as Girard thought about it. The book pus

I am 90% through Wanting and it has also blown my mind. I knew a little about mimetic desire, but not the ins and outs as Girard thought about it. The book pushed me to sell me “dream” car that I recently purchased and has me longing for a simpler life focused less on things that I want do to mimesis. I don’t think mimesis is bad, but I when it’s used to coerce you to live a certain way or do certain things for the benefit of someone else it feels like you don’t have control. Which is the really mind blowing thing about this theory, that we don’t have control.