the Girardian view according to which the great majority of people are a bunch of imitative and desperate joiners looking for scapegoats to enable them to feel like part of a community.

the great majority of people have no business being pundits in the first place, and if our new technologies thrust them into that role, these people are going to be in a position really only to offer up a farce of opinion-having, guided as they are not by a search after truth, but by a desire for belonging.