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308 | Johnathan Bi: René Girard, Mimetic Theory, and Confronting the Apocalypse

The Realignment

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What Are the Next Set of Frictions That Allow These Cultural and Technological Frustrations?

drard has this idea and we talked about this already about the dangers of rapid acceleration you give your gift today i give my gift today um and drard basically thinks what these frictions allow is for people to essentially chill out. It allows nation states to fight wars like a duel which is pull out our guns and shoot each other in fact it's almost even worse than a duel because even if you kill me my nuclear submarines can invent me post morta right that's what it means for mutually assured destruction the hand. Once we explain it in these terms apocalypse is no longer this distance theological incomprehensible you know christian idea of the past it's something that's facing us really day today with both

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