Finally delving into Renee Girard’s I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. Only two chapters in, I am fairly confident I am missing quite a bit, as this is the kind of book you have to marinate in for a while. Nevertheless, I found this quote particularly thought-provoking:
The children repeat the crimes of their fathers precisely because they believe they are morally superior to them. This false difference is already the mimetic illusion of modern individualism, which represents the greatest resistance to the mimetic truth that is reenacted again and again in human relations. The paradox is that the resistance itself brings about the reenactment.