Peter Thiel on René Girard
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Peter Thiel on René Girard
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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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