Culture War as Imitation Game
The French social theorist René Girard, born in 1923, is not quite yet a household name, but his work does
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-Dr Andrew Meltzoff, Neuroscientist
“A call to discernment and deeper fulfuillment that lights a path beyond the darkness of our current world.”
-Stephen Hanselman, The Daily Stoic
Desire is social, contagious, and borrowed. René Girard called it mimetic desire — we want what others want, without knowing it. Wanting is the book that explains why, and what you can do about it.
Conformity is quiet, contagious, and everywhere. An old parable tells of a shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to search for the one — because no self is reducible to the herd. The One and the Ninety-Nine is the book that shows how to resist the crowd, and become unmistakably you.
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The French social theorist René Girard, born in 1923, is not quite yet a household name, but his work does
With school-choice initiatives proliferating, students struggling to make up for lost Covid time, and Americans pessimistic about the direction of
From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path
What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem—and what do either have to do with Silicon Valley? NASA can land a
What is Mimetic Desire? Nearly everyone (unconsciously) assumes there’s a straight line between them and the things they want. >>
I reached out to Liana Finck during the early, dark days of the pandemic in April 2020. My fiancé, Claire,
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