/lit/ - Literature

>>16919832
where do I start with Girard?

>>16919832
Where should I start with Girard?

>>16919832
i was sitting at home reading Plato
"culture, history, are, and religion is explain"
"no"

>>16919855
>>16919862
Matrix moment

>>16919832
Did he end philosophy? How do I cope with living in a post-Girardian world?

In the beginning of Violence and the Sacred Girard talks about how the aspect of difference in a society is important and avoids triggering violence in the community. How is this related to our modern world, where equality is more than ever not encouraged but forced, gay, transgender people, women, all differences being diminished by this forced narrative of indistinction. Does not this forced indifferentiation trigger the justified violence and resistence against these groups?

Anyone here read Eric Gans? If so what do you think of him

basic gestalt

>>16919832
I was I'm my kitchen. Suddenly I thought "Basé !". And just like that I knew we knew.
Joke aside, his talks are super comfy and a good introduction.

Imitation and likeness is the root of peace and culture you dumb frog.

>>16919913
Back to /pol/ sludgebrain

>>16920224
>I want to make love to this woman right now
>You want to make love to this woman right now
Surely no conflict could arise from this situation.

>>16920224
brainlet

>>16919913
he couldn't have imagined a dark world like the one we live today

>>16920235
He’s not wrong

>>16920239
Since rape is only rape if there's an unlikeness in desire between the two parties...

>>16920331
There's TWO (2) men who want to fuck the ONE (1) woman, frog

>>16920243
>what are subcultures
>what is racism
>what is a functioning army
>what is the psychology that we're sexually attracted to second cousins (aka faces with features similar to our own, since this superficially tells our brain they have simile genes which is how we make sure our genes are passed down)
You believe the silly myth that opposites attract?
Like is drawn to like.
You probably also think magnets are a proof of difference when magnets prove this more than anything.

>>16920364
Probably leads to a healthy competition and respect and friendship if they're white.

>>16919832
>humans have no innate desires
>desires are mimetically instigated so that we only desire what we desire because it is the object of another's desire and we are imitating that desire of the Other
>(but we'll just gloss over the fact that the desire of the Other we come into a mimetic relationship with who is desiring what we desire and will seek to imitate was somehow magically desiring prior to this mimesis because ...uh ...reasons)
>also, become Catholic
sigh, it's Aquinas' unmoved mover all over again. "Yeah everything requires a cause..e-except f-for god....s-shut up."

Why does every christian attempt at rational systematization always fall victim to this flaw? Is is something about the texture of christian belief that conditions them to be predisposed to such glaring fallacies and casually accept such egregious internal incoherence?

>>16920364
Men usually become friends after establishing who's strongest or they merely get jolly after a few punches (ever heard of punch it out?), you probably think men fighting is a bad thing or even equivalent to real conflict. If a man takes a fight personally and becomes murderous from it he has an UNLIKENESS in normative behavior.

>>16919913
Everytime I turn tv on. I feel forced to be gay. Why? Forsake this awful planet!

I was reading Lévi-Strauss.

>>16919855
>>16919862

Violence & the Sacred if you want to jump right in, The Scapegoat/I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightening if you want a gentler introduction.

>>16920454
you really missed the point of that post, peabrain

>>16920224
>>16920235
>>16920331
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>>16920454
>you share a board with people like these

bumping because girard is great

>>16919862
Don't

>>16919873
This was actually an example of Girard's mimetic desire in action.

>>16919913
I'd argue it's the opposite, the multiplication of labels allow for indefinite differentiation. Some people are now pretending that you can't write about a Asian character unless you're at least of Asian descent. It's paradoxicially atomization through appeal to culture.

>>16920379
Getting a strong 19th century novel vibe from this post, not that this is a bad thing.

>>16921570
Magnets only attract once they're aligned not opposed.