I am tired of defending mimetic theory. Many girardians use it to make money or be proud of themselves, new ways of being cruel, unsensitive. They don't really care of poor people. From René Girard to mother Teresa, many conversion possibilities remain. I work gratis for sharks.
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I don't think anything about capitalism. I don't like it but know no interesting substitute. Maybe it will transform itself in a better thing, maybe it will cause global collapse, I don't know.
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Well, we can’t go back. And in the mean time people in cities need food delivered via semi trucks. Business and entrepreneurship take care of that. There are problems with it but demonizing entrepreneurs is not the answer. The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
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I'm not interested in capitalism but in its (many and actual) crisis. I think that economic crisis are mimetic crisis : financial ones, industrial ones, inequality growth. desire => rivalry => crisis => scapegoats becoming greed and ads => hyper concurrence => crisis => exclusion
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Yes, hyper-consumption, negative externalities, etc. but nevertheless scapegoating capitalism for all perceived economic ills may lead to a situation where a breakdown in supply chains causes famines, horrifying accidents, etc. Will the cute be worse than the disease or not?
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I think we are (and capitalism is) in a kind of Titanic : I don't dream to drown the boat but to make it change its way :-)))
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By disseminating knowledge of the mimetic mechanism, we hope to transmit Girard's thought. But there are two risks: — being the scapegoat for those who refuse reality — giving sharks one more tool to devour others.
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That is a good way of putting it. It is like a tool, a technology.
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And just like technology, it is a tool that can serve good as well as evil.
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@GirardForum raises a fundamental question: is it "safe" to disseminate such a powerful tool to an audience of intellectuals, some of whom could use it for their own selfish purposes – just like@peterthiel ? What other ways would there be? -
No other way. Knowledge should weaken mimetic rivalry and desire, scapegoat mechanism, drive away crisis. Mankind problem is time. Awareness is a slow process. Do we have enough time ?
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