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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Is There a Connection Between Imitation and Innovation?
In a truly innovative process, it is often so continuous with imitation that its presence can be discovered only after the fact through a process of abstraction. We must have enough reverence or at least curiosity to see history as worthy of engagement. Real change can only take root when it springs from the type of coherence that tradition alone provides. Tradition can only be successfully challenged from the inside. The obligation always to rebel may be more destructive of novelty than the obligation never to rebel.
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