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"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."

β€” Miyamoto Musashi

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"The lamp was never designed to be just a lamp -- lamps stay off way more than they stay on. So how is the lamp working for you when it isn't fulfilling its role?"

| Oscar Leonard, Turning Over the Earth
| Oscar Leonard, Turning Over the Earth

According to Girard, the more differentiated a society, the more stable it is. But on the internet, everybody feels like an undifferentiated peer. Social media decreases the distance between people and their role models, so the pull to idolize false gods is greater than ever. Pair that with the blank slate theory that anybody can do whatever they want, and you have a recipe for runaway Girardian conflict. YouTube celebrities and Instagram influencers sell the exact kinds of behaviors that the Bible warns us about. By manufacturing envy, they tell fans that if they look like them, dress like them, and act like them, they can become them.

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