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Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Peter Thiel on René Girard
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Girard discovered that we come to desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, nor as a decree of our illusory and sovereign self, but through imitation.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Thus imitation is a double-edged sword. At times it produces so much harmony that it can pass for the blandest and dullest of all human drives; at other times it produces so much strife that we refuse to recognize it as imitation.
Rene Girard • Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare (Carthage reprint)
Ritual protects communities from the great violence of Mimetic disorder thanks to the real and symbolic violence of sacrifice. Girard said “sacrificial systems contain violence.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Mimetic desire is the unwritten, unacknowledged system behind visible goals.6 The more we bring that system to light, the less likely it is that we’ll pick and pursue the wrong goals.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
If the French critic René Girard was still above ground, he’d explain to the confused anthropologist that among our species, the intensity of competition tells you very little about underlying value. Instead, we borrow our desires from others: a toddler will try to seize a toy which held no interest to him until his playmate wanted it—and we never
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