Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard

[The product being advertised is not nearly as important as membership in the group that buys the product.]

[One is more likely to envy their peer than the king, because even though the king has much more, there is less distance between you and you peer. We fight not because we are different but because we are the same.]

[In Silicon Valley, envy is productive and creates more founders, as opposed to destructive with many people competing over a CEO title.]

[The collapse of distance online compromises our ability to desire things in a healthy way.]

[Trumpism rejects the idea that 'everyone is equal and we ought to be undifferentiated.]