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Thick Desires, Political Atheism, and Living an Anti-Mimetic Life
The Art of Manliness
The Politics of Desire
Rene Girard, the guy who came up with this whole idea of mimetic desire in theory, he once used the phrase political atheist. So you've been grappling like, what did he mean by this? What is a political atheist? You've never heard those two words together. But I would say that it's a, it's kind of a desacralization of worldly politics. And in my opinion, American politics have become incredibly sacralized.
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