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Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Problem of Originality at All Costs
i think gerard would say that the difference between the tec industry and the oil industry is the same difference between modernity and pagan society. We've now fetishized innovation, we are conforming to contrariism. The more we celebrate creative and enriching innovations, the fewer of them there are. For two thousand years, the arts have been imitative, and it's only in the nineteenth and twentieth century that people started refusing to be mimetic. Rivalry plays a role such that we strive vainly to exercise imitation.
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