David Foster over at Chicago Boyz linked to this article from City Journal about Peter Thiel. Thiel's name has been bandied about as a Trump SCOTUS nominee - surely quite different in credential from the usual offering of experienced appellate judges. He is a Silicon Valley startup godfather.
I'm going to have to read up on Rene Girard whether I think this is Christian or not, but I will grant it a hearing, at any rate.
I'd have to think more about his mimetic notions, but I'm pretty sure they're incomplete--at least as stated in Wikipedia. I picked suicide as a crime that might not be so easily slotted into that framework, but I gather there is a kind of hack-y explanation of it.
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peter thiel is a sexual deviant libertarian who hired a kike, eric weinstein.
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From the article it seems as if Girard probably goes past reasonable beliefs but his ideas are interesting to contemplate, especially in thinking about the last of the big 10.
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