Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis 5/ The novelty of our moment isn't that capitalism exploits or that militarism kills—it's that digital infrastructure has made mimetic escalation algorithmic. The convergence has become infrastructural. What Girard saw as cultural process is now technological architecture.

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Quoted by@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 27/ Mimetic escalation is now, in practical terms, already beyond human control and fully infrastructural. “Try turning it off." Girard names the trap—mimetic rivalry drives us toward apocalypse—and the only exit is interruptive intervention—something outside the rivalry's logic.