Mineral resources? Mineral resources? We don’t need no stinking mineral (or energy) resources. https://alphanews.org/republicans-blast-bidens-mining-ban-all-out-attack/
Societies operating mimetically, according to Rene Girard’s mimetic social theory,1 express themselves something like this:
See point number 16 above. Better fire up those prefrontal cortexes again pretty soon.
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https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/ shows that Desmet’s mass formation working hypothesis is just one aspect of Girard’s mimetic theory.