Source: Law & Liberty
by John-Paul Heil
“What do libertarian Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Republican vice-presidential candidates, staunchly left New York playwrights, writers for HBO prestige dramas, Catholic bishops, and the top academic institutions in France have in common? All have explicitly drawn influence from French scholar René Girard. Girard devoted his life to championing three key anthropological insights: * We want what we want through the imitation of others’ desires. * This imitative structure of human desire leads to rivalry and eventually to collective violence of all against a scapegoat. * This violence forms the basis for all archaic sacrificial religions.” (10/15/24)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-mystic-of-silicon-valley/