Peter Thiel

And when everybody wants the same thing, this becomes this incredibly, incredibly violent thing. And then, in Gibrard's understanding, the point of, you know, a major point of a lot of the laws, divine laws in these archaic societies was to, in some sense, stop imitation, to prevent imitation, to, you know, the job you do will be the same job that your father did.

if your father's a baker, you will be a baker. And this creates, you know, a guild system where you don't have this sort of free market competition between everybody and it all goes, everybody's at everybody else's throats. And then somehow, you know, what's happened in late modernity in Girard is that as these institutions have unraveled, there has again been this freedom to imitate like we did

if your father's a baker, you will be a baker. And this creates, you know, a guild system where you don't have this sort of free market competition between everybody and it all goes, everybody's at everybody else's throats. And then somehow, you know, what's happened in late modernity in Girard is that as these institutions have unraveled, there has again been this freedom to imitate like we did

if your father's a baker, you will be a baker. And this creates, you know, a guild system where you don't have this sort of free market competition between everybody and it all goes, everybody's at everybody else's throats. And then somehow, you know, what's happened in late modernity in Girard is that as these institutions have unraveled, there has again been this freedom to imitate like we did

before we had anything cultural at all, before we had invented, when the apes hadn't yet invented religion or these sacred structures that somehow channeled the violence. And so in late modernity, it's again, the mimesis is,

before we had anything cultural at all, before we had invented, when the apes hadn't yet invented religion or these sacred structures that somehow channeled the violence. And so in late modernity, it's again, the mimesis is,

before we had anything cultural at all, before we had invented, when the apes hadn't yet invented religion or these sacred structures that somehow channeled the violence. And so in late modernity, it's again, the mimesis is,

is, you know, it's what makes our society dynamic, but there are no natural barriers, and that's also, you know, what can give it an apocalyptic dimension or, you know, and again, there are ways it doesn't fully spiral into thermonuclear war all the time, or hasn't yet, but, you know, it has this super open-ended dimension where it can go in all these different ways, you know.

is, you know, it's what makes our society dynamic, but there are no natural barriers, and that's also, you know, what can give it an apocalyptic dimension or, you know, and again, there are ways it doesn't fully spiral into thermonuclear war all the time, or hasn't yet, but, you know, it has this super open-ended dimension where it can go in all these different ways, you know.

is, you know, it's what makes our society dynamic, but there are no natural barriers, and that's also, you know, what can give it an apocalyptic dimension or, you know, and again, there are ways it doesn't fully spiral into thermonuclear war all the time, or hasn't yet, but, you know, it has this super open-ended dimension where it can go in all these different ways, you know.

There's probably, again, we're throwing out a lot of different ideas here, there probably is you know, something about the loss of the transcendent, where, you know, if you have some transcendent reference, you're not in mimetic competition. Yeah, okay, I want to return to that.

There's probably, again, we're throwing out a lot of different ideas here, there probably is you know, something about the loss of the transcendent, where, you know, if you have some transcendent reference, you're not in mimetic competition. Yeah, okay, I want to return to that.

There's probably, again, we're throwing out a lot of different ideas here, there probably is you know, something about the loss of the transcendent, where, you know, if you have some transcendent reference, you're not in mimetic competition. Yeah, okay, I want to return to that.

And so one of the intuitions Girard always had on the Ten Commandments is that the most important were the first and last on the list. The first commandment, you know, only worship one God, there's one God above you, that's who you worship.

And so one of the intuitions Girard always had on the Ten Commandments is that the most important were the first and last on the list. The first commandment, you know, only worship one God, there's one God above you, that's who you worship.

And so one of the intuitions Girard always had on the Ten Commandments is that the most important were the first and last on the list. The first commandment, you know, only worship one God, there's one God above you, that's who you worship.

The 10th commandment is the one about, you know, not coveting the things that belong to your neighbor, not being too your neighbor's ox or wife or, you know, this whole set of things. And it's basically when you, you know, when you stop looking up, you start looking around and when you look around too much, It's not a wisdom of crowds. It's a madness of crowds.

The 10th commandment is the one about, you know, not coveting the things that belong to your neighbor, not being too your neighbor's ox or wife or, you know, this whole set of things. And it's basically when you, you know, when you stop looking up, you start looking around and when you look around too much, It's not a wisdom of crowds. It's a madness of crowds.

The 10th commandment is the one about, you know, not coveting the things that belong to your neighbor, not being too your neighbor's ox or wife or, you know, this whole set of things. And it's basically when you, you know, when you stop looking up, you start looking around and when you look around too much, It's not a wisdom of crowds. It's a madness of crowds.

And then that is... That's the envy issue. And then that is sort of where, again, we're not even talking about what to do about this, but this is just sort of a... Well, kind of. Looking up is partly what to do about it. As a description, I would say there is something about...