Peter Thiel

That might make it worse, right? Because you'd focus on it even more, and then you'd conclude... As in so much therapy, it gets marketed as self-transformation, and it crashes out as self-acceptance, and then you probably just conclude, I'm just a really mimetic person, I can't help it.

That might make it worse, right? Because you'd focus on it even more, and then you'd conclude... As in so much therapy, it gets marketed as self-transformation, and it crashes out as self-acceptance, and then you probably just conclude, I'm just a really mimetic person, I can't help it.

That might make it worse, right? Because you'd focus on it even more, and then you'd conclude... As in so much therapy, it gets marketed as self-transformation, and it crashes out as self-acceptance, and then you probably just conclude, I'm just a really mimetic person, I can't help it.

Into self-acceptance, let's say.

Into self-acceptance, let's say.

Into self-acceptance, let's say.

I wish it would stop there, but it doesn't. And then I think Girard's answer would still be something like, you should just go to church.

I wish it would stop there, but it doesn't. And then I think Girard's answer would still be something like, you should just go to church.

I wish it would stop there, but it doesn't. And then I think Girard's answer would still be something like, you should just go to church.

The way I believe it was sort of this somewhat optimistic, you know, just positive society's progressing through imitation.

The way I believe it was sort of this somewhat optimistic, you know, just positive society's progressing through imitation.

The way I believe it was sort of this somewhat optimistic, you know, just positive society's progressing through imitation.

Yes, he was.

Yes, he was.

Yes, he was.

Well, let me see. There's many different threads here, but I would say, Gerard would reference people like Piaget and said that, you know, they underestimated imitation massively. They whitewash it. It's, you know, if you ignore this all-important runaway violence dimension and things like this... Yeah, well, Piaget was not a psychopathologist, right?

Well, let me see. There's many different threads here, but I would say, Gerard would reference people like Piaget and said that, you know, they underestimated imitation massively. They whitewash it. It's, you know, if you ignore this all-important runaway violence dimension and things like this... Yeah, well, Piaget was not a psychopathologist, right?

Well, let me see. There's many different threads here, but I would say, Gerard would reference people like Piaget and said that, you know, they underestimated imitation massively. They whitewash it. It's, you know, if you ignore this all-important runaway violence dimension and things like this... Yeah, well, Piaget was not a psychopathologist, right?

Yeah, yeah. And then I think Gerard... intuition was much more that, in some sense, the so-called normal case is the less important one. It's the extreme case. It's the madness of crowds. That's an extremely important case. Hey, fair enough. Because Piaget also wasn't an abnormal psychologist. Piaget would have been like Malcolm Gladwell, in the wisdom of crowds.

Yeah, yeah. And then I think Gerard... intuition was much more that, in some sense, the so-called normal case is the less important one. It's the extreme case. It's the madness of crowds. That's an extremely important case. Hey, fair enough. Because Piaget also wasn't an abnormal psychologist. Piaget would have been like Malcolm Gladwell, in the wisdom of crowds.