Silicon Valley turned René Girard into a strategy guru. Tech bros quote him to win. Critics use him to condemn the attention economy. Both camps strip out what Girard himself considered essential: the theology that led him back to Catholicism. What if the French theorist's most radical insight wasn't a mechanism to exploit, but the only exit from a game nobody can win?
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