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

The Realignment

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The Duke of Well in Tin and Napoleon Bonaparte's Like Descendants Are Both Like Traders in London

drard actually sees modern-name capitalism in the market economy as the channeler and productive director of violence. The idea here is that um it's the same sort of social drives that drove Napoleon to you know come back and and made france after he was in exile, Drard says. "It's not the concern for material goods that fundamentally motivates the world economy but a drive for social recognition"

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