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The sweet irony of everyone learning about Girard's work because of wanting to Imitate those they respect."attempts to put him in a box reveal something about our own need to comfort ourselves." Says the person who wrote a book that I bet is selling like hotcakes. 😂 https://t.co/cHUKzHuDQ3
"rivals are obsessed with each other and their fight. Bystanders are drawn into “taking sides,” and so the conflict can envelop a society, with cycles of retaliatory (and therefore imitative) violence and one-upsmanship."https://t.co/vvAvJqIAAShttps://t.co/ATCiJLAa5v
Everything I learned about René Girard, I already inferred from reading the bible. https://t.co/Jtv91JvB94
I was floored when I learned that people didn't realize the connection https://t.co/eSJimvBMDg
Why imitate Girard when I can just pretend I'm Thomas Aquinas influenced by Marx and Smith's explorations of culture and labor?https://t.co/z2Hv0JatT2
Sartre and Heidegger have a baby and they named it Hobbes.Hobbes gets a bit drunk one night and pretends to be a mime shitting on religion, refering to the state as a Leviathan.Girard sees this and runs with it, not realizing it was a cosmic joke.https://t.co/eQSeV9sQAi
Man researches the history of his culture's myths and systems behind the institutions that give rise to goodness around him. Finds himself in a station that is pleasing. Decides that all goodness must be due to the system. Fearing change, deems it sacred. https://t.co/7gVfb3Tnij
The fool that I am! I see thru the charade and deem such a system is only one possible strategy. Poor Girard doesn't see that his own belief system is a coquette that pulls at his heart strings. He's only half right.https://t.co/hLEbv0qJzr
If a lion could speak, we'd assume he was an allegory for Jesus and misinterpret everything he said under our own mimetic frame.https://t.co/2yh9qOMWA5
If spiders could speak, they'd say "you just activated my trap card"https://t.co/f96pGkDz8G
Tired: Rene Girard's religious patterned myths around divine systems of envy.Wired: Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.Inspired: We are just fucking ants you twits.https://t.co/IniC8abFph
Survivorship bias in the applications of the theory of mimesis.https://t.co/qpTALCXau3
A survivorship bias effect perhaps? For every hero with 1000 face perpetuated forth by society, a hundred thousand anti-heros are left unsung, and a million stage hands are conpsiciously hidden. The all singing, all dancing crap of the world never makes it to the playbill.
Ascribing the local patterns to the global way of being. Essentialism as a way for a society to convince itself that it's own form is eternal. Self-edifying constructs of divine bullshit. https://t.co/8RtYwD2kxG
*holds up chicken food*Here is your mimetic desire!https://t.co/QXc9KVzZVO
Muh Lobstershttps://t.co/SJFQWt4Idc
Tired: associating lobster hierarchies/neurochemistry to support your culturally biased view on dominance behaviors.Wired: Associating ant behavior & network formation as emergent structure where hierarchy is artifact of complex system/swarm intelligence. https://t.co/vyC5n09Nsd
Muh Lobstershttps://t.co/cpw9wXEiWf
The desire for meaning consumes those who seek it."It might actually be useful to know just how much of the time it happens, but repeating the blanket claims of a Girard is a surefire recipe for not finding out."https://t.co/w9oMTR97Zq https://t.co/oakjW4vrXc
I love finding something on Stanford's website that espouses with 14k+ words what I compressed into a tweet to make a joke.https://t.co/ALu6AIALBI
Sartre and Heidegger have a baby and they named it Hobbes.Hobbes gets a bit drunk one night and pretends to be a mime shitting on religion, refering to the state as a Leviathan.Girard sees this and runs with it, not realizing it was a cosmic joke.https://t.co/eQSeV9sQAi
"Being frustrated and even jealous with a sibling for “outshining” you is something a lot of people can relate to."I literally can't relate to this. AFAICT, my sister outshines me, but I do not experience jealousy or envy.https://t.co/Odur00H4Njhttps://t.co/4nL4z6okO0
Jesus: Hey G-d, can we try to convince the normies to stop killing each other?Gdd: Well, I tried that whole flood thing. Pillars of salt didn't catch on either.Jesus: What about an alternative to scapegoating?G-d: ... say no more son!*many years later*Jesus: Oh no.
"It turns out that social types would show the same level of asociality towards out-group members as would asocial types, while exhibiting sociality only towards in-group members. This result is in line with experimental studies of the Prisoner's Dilemma."https://t.co/FIamQjuaSU
Envy at the scale of the tribe. That disgusting outgroup, they have resources we want. They must be evil for preventing us from using them.https://t.co/0zqrezdDdf
Girard's Mimesis, but in ants!"When this leads to societies eating well and raising healthy young, it's called division of labor and heralded as a cornerstone of civilization. When it leads to tribalism, it's called a breakdown of civil discourse."https://t.co/SCsgLg8SMm
If a lion could speak, would we heed it when it screams?https://t.co/iFi7TNH28E
"All animals can scream"https://t.co/1iJInqD1SA
Screaming is taboo'd.Only the void is allowed to hear your unholy utterance.Like a prayer, only hypocrites scream in public.The boy who screamed lion.This sacredness is what gives screams their meaning.Their power lies in the taboo.https://t.co/35EHwKcFrF
Screaming where the sidewalk ends.Asking for one with everything.. https://t.co/V4IIO2wbHU
Someone more well versed in philosophy concepts made a simlar joke. Is it mimetic desire to suggest that he was copying me, or am I the one with envy?https://t.co/Xw2sRAqDqz
Game Theory is asleepPost about ant feces as a form of cosmic chess.https://t.co/saecBNVERQ
Telling dick jokes to the void.https://t.co/G6M08jIN0f
Would be really funny if our modern social systems diverged from ancient tribal structures where the head of the tribes was the literal father.https://t.co/8wCqaXe0km
