Not to pre-respond to something you haven't written yet... but Thiel is the anti-Girard IMHO.
Deeply inspired by / Mobius strip version of.
Thiel-admirer Arnaud Auger referred to Girard as the "godfather of the like button" to explain Girard-admirer Thiel's prescient 500K into The Facebook. But this conclusion requires sailing right past Girard's whole "vade retro satana" bit on the tempting inspiration of crowds and their gaze. (As in: Girard was not thumbs-upping the phenom, much less investing in it.)
Not far from you, at Gennes Val de Loire
Not to pre-respond to something you haven't written yet... but Thiel is the anti-Girard IMHO.
Deeply inspired by / Mobius strip version of.
Thiel-admirer Arnaud Auger referred to Girard as the "godfather of the like button" to explain Girard-admirer Thiel's prescient 500K into The Facebook. But this conclusion requires sailing right past Girard's whole "vade retro satana" bit on the tempting inspiration of crowds and their gaze. (As in: Girard was not thumbs-upping the phenom, much less investing in it.)
But I await your smarter take on it eagerly.
Agree(d). How I miss our Girardesque discussions, oh-so-far back in the innocent daze!