
Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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Struggling in the Zoo of Prestige
The speaker found his way to Gerard out of desperate existential necessity, as he was struggling deeply in a personal and existential sense as a freshman at Columbia. He describes the university environment as a zoo filled with hyperconscious, status-oriented, prestige-seeking teenagers, where the existential problem was hollowness caused by the natural tendency to imitate others rather than pursuing things for their own sake.
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