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Rene Girard's Memetic Theory

Rene Girard's Memetic Theory

Mimetic Theory rests on the assumption that all our cultural behaviors, beginning with the acquisition of language by children, are imitative. Girard observed that all desires come from other people. When it goes right, imitation is a shortcut to learning but ... when two people want the same scarce object, they fight.

Girard sees the world as a theatre of envy, noting that Mimetic imitation invariably leads to envy, violence, and bitter, ever-escalating violence.

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