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Mimetics, Human Perversion and Hope

The Frontier

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Social Media and Mimetic Theory

The velocity of mimesis is so much greater today than it ever has been. Things like pride and envy, in particular, seem to be at an all-time high on social media. Gerard thinks that this closing down of distance is ultimately a good thing because it binds by the fundamental Christian message of equality. This paradoxically has a radically dangerous element where he thinks of it actually in gender apocalypse.

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