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’Passive, submissive imitation does exist, but hatred of conformity and extreme individualism are no less imitative. Today they constitute a negative conformism that is more formidable than the positive version. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he professes to love but more often despises’. - René Girard, ’The One by Whom Scandal Comes’ (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series)’, 2001.
Notes: mimetic desire = Since Plato scholars of human nature have highlighted the mimetic capacity of human beings; i.e., we are the species most apt at imitation; it’s the basic mechanism of learning (we learn inasmuch as we imitate what our teachers do). But according to Girard we also imitate other people’s desires, and depending on how this happens, it may lead to conflicts and rivalries. Mimesis (unlike mere imitation) implies a negative aspect of rivalry; if we imitate each other’s desires, we end up desiring the very same things; and if we desire the very same things, we easily fall into rivalry, reaching for the same objects.
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