I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history―the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.
O'Reilly Media • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Girard’s theory of human nature explains the true origin of desire and its consequences if not directed properly
Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
There have been two major social inventions in history that mitigated the negative consequences of mimetic desire: the scapegoat mechanism and the market economy.