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I'm honestly tired of seeing mimesis and mimetic desire associated with Peter Thiel. Why is Thiel even mentioned?... To get twitter tech bro clicks?

Girard was a literary scholar who focused on myths and mimetic desire was just one part of his analysis of mythical or narrative texts. The other large part of his analysis is related to the scapegoat and how it is the "mortar" for building communal and religious social structures. Certainly read some of his essay collections or even one of his longer books. At the very least read a summary online.