Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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The Boardroom Scene in American Psycho
The boardroom scene in the movie American Psycho perfectly encapsulates all of these qualities of memetic rivalry that we have just talked about so far. Similarity leads to real and social competition. Competition produces more similarity. All of this is obstructed by false differences which justify violence. This is both a positive species of mimesis where rivals become more like each other, but there is also a whole phase of mimeis that pushes us away from others.
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