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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Johnathan Bi

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The Break in Culture and the Continuity in Psychology

We are no longer living in a cultural environment which we have evolved and adapted to. Culture is fundamentally different. We protect victims now, whereas they used to be persecuted. We value truth now, whereas we used to believe dogmatically. It is this incompatibility then between our cultural ideals and our natural tendencies that leads to hypocrisy. The core problems of majority that we will explore in this lecture take on the shape of hypocrisy.

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