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Johnathan Bi: René Girard & Mimetic Desire

"World of DaaS"

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How to Deal With the Mimesis

The Mimesis is fundamentally instrumental to what makes us humans. How do we deal with the Mimesis rather than sort of is it a bad thing that we are mimetic? Now, one of the things I heard you talk about from Gerard is kind of our propensity sometimes to turn social interactions into zero sum and sometimes even negative sum when maybe there could be positive sum. In that world, many things do seem positive sum. Many things.

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