I can’t find anything useful in Girard. His world is the world of the routine, but everything important exists outside the routine. His world is Manhattan in 1980, not Jakarta in 2020
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heh, this is an unpopular view in my circles, and people are always somewhere between upset to angry that I think girard is overrated meh
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Never get why he is popular in your circles. His worldview seems antithetical to those circles. Is it just Stanford? Thiel?
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Overrated because mimesis is a semi-obvious, almost common sense feature of humans?
Read through ‘things hidden …’ over the course of several months. I didn’t find much of it really inspiring. Perhaps, my cultural background is very different was my only explanation. Or maybe I am a normie. Don’t know which.



