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

The Realignment

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Is René Girard a Philosopher?

René Girard was born before World War I and his dad really had a negative view to warfare he thought it was quite you know stupid. Gerard has this important motif of the warring twin how people who are diametrically opposed engaging warfare are really very similar or similar in certain aspects. He also observed that after the French resistance that took back power when allies pushed back the Nazis that the French resistance really committed a lot of the crimes that people attributes in the NazisI think we have so much to talk about both yeah maybe the economics and then apocalypse but first let's just give you Gerard's core insight which enabled him to see the world in a different interesting theoretical way.

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