A French philosopher he developed a unique worldview based on the concept of mimetic desire. According to him, human beings are constantly seeking to imitate and emulate the desires of others, and this process of imitation drives much of human behavior and social dynamics.

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According to Girard, is a social mechanism that arrises from a cataclysmic event. A troubled society murders an "innocent" victim (blamed for all evils) & thus gains cathartic release and gains new new Gods. This event is dramatised, captured in myth and ...

For Girard, violence is natural. But modern day seems quite peaceful. And Girard credits 2 institutions:

• capitalism: which Girard sees it as a status seeking game more than a rational transfer of resources.
• laws: a set of institutions that medi...

Girard observed that our desires are social. We rarely desire an object for it's intrinsic functional qualities. We usually use the objects as proxies for an identity we envy. 

Desire are not fixed or innate, but rather constantly changing & under the influence of the peopl...

The Christian mythology follows the same Girardian arc: civil unrest in Judea, Jesus crucified as a scapegoat, turned into a God, institutionalized through the church. 

However, the unique element is that the story is told for the perspective of the victim, rather than of the accuse...