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Johnathan Bi: René Girard & Mimetic Desire

"World of DaaS"

CHAPTER

The Impossibility of Breaking Out

"It's almost impossible for anybody who's actually trying to move around in society to not be infected by it," he says. "I've never proven that the world is round to myself, right? I haven't gone to first principles on it, but I believe the world isRound." The Unibomber broke out of his ' mimetic orbit' when he killed himself and other people with a homemade explosive device.

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