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Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)
Infinite Loops
Drodsey's Human Desires
Drodsey's hypothesis is that we desire objects associated with models to people of superior being when we already look up to them. We want to exist very loosely in great measure, and this is where the mimetic part of it really comes in. Drodsey always sees the human subject as never desiring alone, but always desiring among a community of other desires. That is the mechanism of prestige that Drodsey identifies.
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