I see that you’ve caught lightning in a bottle, but have you ever considered it might look better in a nice vase?

Merf said she’s glad you enjoyed it!!

This is actually one of the main focuses of Palaver's later scholarship. Here's a paper he wrote on Gandhi and nonviolence:

www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12...

And here's a book he coedited on mimetic theory in world religions:

msupress.org/978160917544...

GREAT question. For the sake of people's attention spans, this didn't make it into the final piece, but I wish I'd had enough space for it. A lot of mimetic theorists have applied Girard's ideas to other world religions (+ shifts that are comparable to the crucifixion narrative in Christianity).

Additional MASSIVE thanks to @samspengler.bsky.social and @hudsongiles.bsky.social for keeping me safe and honest. I know it was a lift, and I am so thankful for your careful work.

Feeling ENDLESSLY grateful to @johngravois.bsky.social for taking a chance on a truly strange idea and joining me SO far out in the weeds. Without your generous help, I might have been stuck out there forever.

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I think a good 2025 resolution for all of us is to eat WAY more photos of the things that we want.

Are you accepting only this specific genre of screeds? Tempted to treat this as an open invitation, and I have so many screeds inside of me.

close runner up: the day I realized Blake Masters was once a Quora power user.