Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@lukeburgis Quite. As Peter Thiel says, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." He then forges a career as a panopticon lord shopping for a theological alibi. Theoretical lucidity is not redemption. The most dangerous scapegoaters are the ones who have read Girard.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Mar 2026
@lukeburgis Seems the Rome formation risks a counter-mimetic vanguard—a 'Girardian' circle deploying a sacral warrant for converting the diagnostic instrument into an exemption claim. A more sophisticated, credentialed form of sacrificial violence, fluent in critique and now immune to it.
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