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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For some sharks at least, and that's even too much. I consider mimetic theory as a science but girardism as a snobbery : books, books, books, while poor people are suffering and environment is being rapidly destroyed. A new kind of subtile hypocrisy and vainglory, sometimes.
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In my own family, an entrepreneur. He has always been interested in neurosciences, then in mimetic theory, but to sell stuff and to manipulate people, not to be a better person !!!
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Replying to @GirardForum
Many entrepreneurs and investors come to Mimetic Theory through Thiel. Are you anti-capitalist? Are entrepreneurs (capitalists) evil? Anti-technology? Girard himself talks of how entrepreneurs are often scapegoats of society, evil men who only care about the $$$
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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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Yes, this is how I see it. I see that many are sitting talking of a hole in the ship and debating the existence of ships and holes while some are attempting to repair the damage and guide us to shore. I’m trying not to get in their way :)
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