Tag Archive for: Rene Girard
Peter Thiel, Irresistible Pariah
Blog, Leadership
Reprinted with permission from Luke Burgis’ Substack, Anti-Mimetic.
The publishing industry fuels its non-fiction sales with Girardian scapegoats by authors who play the game. Does every good story need a bad guy?
If you want to…
The Entrepreneur Who Wants Us to Rethink What’s Worth Wanting
Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture
Few people realize that they’re caught up in the kind of mimetic crisis that Rene Girard (above) described while they are actually in it, says Luke Burgis, author of Wanting.
A powerful idea, that of mimetic desire, seems to be getting…