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Johnathan Bi: René Girard & Mimetic Desire

"World of DaaS"

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The Cassandra of Climate Change

A lot of times when people, there's also this Cassandra side of it, like I'm going to point out these problems. And of course, like every once in a while, the Cassandra is correct, but probably like 99 times out of a thousand, they're not. So you can tell that they're more likely signaling when you're proposing answers that don't actually solve the end problem. Yeah. After reading your what makes me optimistic about humanity? Perhaps we should explain the premise behind that question to our listeners who might not be as familiar with his work. Gerard is a deeply apocalyptic thinker. In fact, famously in his last book, Bowing to the End, he basically thinks

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