I remember reading Girard's "Things hidden since the foundation..." and feeling the way it's used now to reason around human desires to be incomplete. Looking

I remember reading Girard's "Things hidden since the foundation..." and feeling the way it's used now to reason around human desires to be incomplete. Looking back at my grandfather's living as a simple peasant, he did many things mimetically, yet there were long periods of nothingness where his internal desires sprung forth: one day I remember he just weaved basked because he wanted new baskets. There was no need for them, there was nobody among our neighbors that was doing this, he was free and decided to make some baskets. That's why I'd relabel desires as internal or external originating instead of thick and thin. True internal desires come out best when there aren't any externally generated desires, and modern life seems to overload our capacity for generating internal originated desires. Internal desires now only seem to show up in times of crisis, and then we've got a much harder time to actually work with them.