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

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Innovation Is Synonymous With Imitation

How else do you understand all the intricacies of a system without learning and imitating? History is littered with examples where repetition, replication, imitation is a necessary precondition for innovation. In the 2000s, many thought of Alibaba as but a copycat of eBay or Amazon. transplanting an entire business model to a different country is not just about mere regurgitation. There are whole careers in Silicon Valley made by observing leading trends in the Chinese technology ecosystem.

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