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But the proliferation of mimetic tribes strained the core assumptions underpinning Girard’s framework, as context collapse made it impossible for any scapegoat — no matter how big— to fully resolve conflicts between tribes. One tribe’s scapegoat was another’s hero…When Girard developed his theory…there was only one public narrative to keep track of
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Hellinger believes that the mechanism behind these repetitions is unconscious loyalty, and views unconscious loyalty as the cause of much suffering in families. Unable to identify the source of their symptoms as belonging to an earlier generation, people often assume that the source of their problem is their own life experience, and are left helple
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David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
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Bien avant René Girard, Spinoza a souligné l’importance du désir mimétique : je désire une chose ou une personne parce qu’un autre la possède. Or, ces mécanismes qui produisent nos affects nous sont le plus souvent obscurs : nous n’avons aucune conscience des causes profondes qui font que nous sommes jaloux, amoureux, haineux, miséricordieux ou dés
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This craving for being and pursuit of emulative or mimetic models leads to dissatisfaction, rivalry and violence. Since our desires are imitated from others, we end up coveting what others prize and becoming rivals to each other. We want others to imitate our desires, since we want to be like our models and thus to be models ourselves.
Alexander Douglas • Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
Models can distort reality, as we saw with Steve Jobs. A mimetic wave of accusation, in which enough people model belief in another person’s guilt, can transfigure an accused person before our eyes. We don’t see them as they are because they are a mirror of our own violence.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
As long as social difference or any other form of differentiation is present to channel mimetic desire, its conflictual dimension remains contained.