Our Mimetic Culture

People Who Influence (and Are Influenced By) the Desires of Others

Let’s have some fun.

I’ve plotted a few cultural figures on this four-quadrant grid. We can situate people and groups according to two criteria:

1)    Mimetic Axis (Left —> Right): We can plot from left to right according to how mimetic the person or group seems (the left is hyper-mimetic; the right is less mimetic)

2)    Proximity Axis (Top —> Bottom). We…