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Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard
EconTalk
The Impartial Observer
The Gerardian impartial spectator, as I understood you before, is a part of this culture that you and I inhabit. Adam Smith might want the approval of that group that he's immersed himself in. He's going to be drawn to them like a moth to a light bulb and he's going to give in. It's always perverse from Gerard's perspective because it's essentially a desire to be God,. This is why it's satanic, we're designing power, we're creating reality.
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