Peter Thiel on René Girard
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Peter Thiel on René Girard
This case illustrates Girard’s maxim that ‘individualism is a formidable lie’.7 Accepting the outward form of Girard’s theory, Thiel is unable to abandon the romantic fantasy of a self-directed, creative individual: the entrepreneur, who escapes mimesis and forges an original path. But Girard’s theory holds that any attempt at individual liberation
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Girard believes that the way we go about choosing which objects to go after is by imitating those whom we already consider possessing this fullness of being (celebrities, parents, entrepreneurs, etc.)
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