>>13763537>Yes I’m familiar with mimetic theoryNice
>I don’t think Girard said anything about reproduction being some basis for his theoryNot directly you are right, I was not referring to what I said before as it was contained in Girard theory, I was referring to mimetic theory as another anthropological brick, this one being a fundamental strategy.
It can also potentially be dismissed as an abstract veil, but I think that it changes everything when you are conscious of it, if you are aware as another example of the scapegoating mechanism that derives itself from mimetic conflict, then reproducing the behavior, especially reproducing the same results is ... difficult, and when this pattern is at the center of for example most religions or governments, then you realize how much of a practical difference awareness can be.
What he also described as needs and desires can be interestingly (in my opinion) transposed into a directed graph structure of goals, from the tiniest little desire of the day to the ultimate need.
So I understand the urge to say something like "we are much more than this", I just don't see anything that can't be contained in it, the reason of the reason of an act will always end up being the same, there are no "irrationalities" (in the sense of counter-examples), only different strategies (that create themselves the goals leading to actions) with varying degrees of effectiveness (Complete and total failures included).
Why do you want to be (as much as possible, and would pick everything if you could) intelligent, rich, cultivated, skilled, tall, muscled, etc ... well, it seems like absolutely all your actions (the result of strategies such as mimetic) are actively & ultimately directed towards one thing, to reproduce.
How could it be just an "absurd veil", if your subconscious is actively involved in this endeavor all day, it's just us that don't have the necessary depth to be fully aware of it.
