Been reading some René Girard. The sacrificial victim stuff makes sense, but I'm totally lost on the whole mimetic urge. I don't understand / see with my own eyes that everyone wants to mimic, nor that everyone hates to be mimiced. What am I missing ?
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3/ I read something about Freud once: "Freud was right ... about Freud. He was wrong in thinking that his model was generally applicable." I wonder how much philosophers inquire into Truth, and how much they just inquire into "THEIR truth".
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4/ I'm gonna push back on this and say that I hang out at EXACTLY enough playgrounds. https://twitter.com/Auberon_Quin/status/1345819608478048263 …
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7/ This had occurred to me - perhaps my inability to see the thing Girard talked about says more about me than him.
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