What's the Big Picture of Girard?

Girard is this very kind of important thing. He's got a lot of things and we're going to talk about some of them, but what's kind of the big picture? How would you describe that? So it begins with his theory of memetic desire, which- Can't stop. Sorry, Siri went off. I want to talk to Gil Bailey too. And he said, okay, well, so I got things hidden since the foundations of the world. Bad place to start, for sure. But definitely there are better places to start. Let's actually go and talk a little bit about Girard and some of his main ideas.