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In those two books it was abundantly clear that what Peter Thiel took from Girard is that there is no framework. no morality, no ethics, no basic code of society, there is only desire and that the way forward is to be the model of that desire, not the victim of that desire. Thiel basically went "we owe no one nothing" and acted accordingly. This is one of the books. I wanted a bit on "mimetic desire" but what I got was "here's how Peter Thiel misreads Girard." I myself have not read Girard but, if Alexander Douglas thinks the heart of Mimetic Desire is a christ-like selflessness, that is nowhere in any of the reads that reflect through a Thielian lens.