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Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Perverse Sentiment Within Modernity

We can just as easily be socially determined by rejecting a group as we can by conforming to the group. Becoming a progressive because you are resentful of the conservatives is no less socially determined than becoming a progressive out of peer pressure from progressives. One is then shown to be a social creature through and through. Spirit is stronger, it's more persistent, and more important to us. Reason often pretends to be its steward, but in reality is its lawyer and spokesperson.

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