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mimetic-desire-hardens-into-rivalry-and-accelerates-to-crisis

Admiration slips into comparison, and comparison into the fear that there is not enough recognition to go around. We mirror one another's wounds as well as longings, so resentment answers resentment until everyone is set against everyone else. Rests on: [[desire-is-mimetic-we-want-what-others-want]]

Provenance

Original — no external source.

Holding

Zero holding — a leaf in the rests-on graph.

Rests on:

desire-is-mimetic-we-want-what-others-want

Held by (1 claims rest on this):

the-scapegoat-mechanism-buys-unity-through-a-blamed-other