/lit/ - Literature

>be Catholic
>read the Golden Bough once
how is this guy so popular? he just reformulated Frazer. the entire idea of analyzing society through the phenomena of the sacrifice (which is a scapegoat, generally), and Christ being the ultimate scapegoat, wasn't even Girard's idea. &that's his whole theory, except he's a Christian so he doesn't accept that the crucifixion of Jesus as derivative of the sacrifice ritual. plus Thiel... was Girard an industry plant? to bury deeper the truth of the Golden Bough?

>>12027706
working on one right now in fact

>anyone
>interesting
i mean, with caveats. i'm neither anyone nor interesting. but, you know, other than this. and it's hardly critique, just some notes related to these threads.

>>11845277
aw yeah the scapeGOAT

get 'em rene get 'em

>>11239094
>To sum up, René Girard, as a Stanford Professor of philosophy, worked on the construction of desire in the greatest novels and found out that there is never any "direct desire". Desire is mimetic. Always a process of imitation. We never desire anything directly, we always desire something through the desire of someone else we admire and tend to imitate. Neurologists later on proved René Girard's philosophy right also from their perspective.

>Then, Peter Thiel, as René Girard's student in Philosophy at Stanford, after having been the very first investor of Facebook, explained this theory to Mark Zuckerberg to convince him to make a platform of "mimetic desire". Who owns a machine to create desire, owns the world. So was born the "Like" button to see what the people and organization you follow like...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/godfather-like-button-dead-long-live-his-work-arnaud-auger

wow

>>9700364
>tfw the girard meme grows stronger