Mimesis, Violence, and #Facebook: #PeterThiel’s French Connection

Girard’s statement: “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.”

For #RenéGirard (and here he differs from psychoanalysis), #mimesis is the process by which we learn how and what to desire. Any subject’s desire, he argues, is based on that of another subject who functions as a model, or “mediator.”

#fascism #christiannationalsm #trump #jdvance #election #voteblue
https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/08/13/mimesis-violence-and-facebook-peter-thiels-french-connection-full-essay/

Seven Mountains of B.S. (with Katherine Stewart)
The dangerous rise of Christian nationalism.
from @gregolear
#7Mbs #ChristianNationalsm

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/seven-mountains-of-bs-with-katherine?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20695&post_id=82498860&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email