Introduction

  • Recap of previous episodes on the mimetic desire.

  • Rene Girard's model of scapegoating.

2:33 How do we prevent mimetic desire?

  • One way to solve mimetic desire and scapegoating.

  • The dispute plan to prevent future luxury.

4:42 What do you do after the revolution?

  • Government ineptitude and bureaucracy is what the people actually want.

  • What to do after the revolution, or after the orgy.

  • The French army became the first to create a dedicated camouflage unit.

  • Art as an artificial art.

8:54 Fiction is artifice that becomes truth.

  • Imitation is natural to man from childhood.

  • Art is the lie that makes us realize truth.

11:17 Three ways to hide; camouflage in nature, military and politics.

  • The three main purposes of camouflage.

  • Three ways to hide camouflage via nature.

  • Blending or hiding in nature, military and politicians.

  • Blending in politics.

16:02 Dazzle Camouflage.

  • Dazzle in the animal kingdom.

  • Trump is a dazzler like AOC.

18:53 Dissembling and dazzle.

  • The third type of camouflage, obfuscation, is dissembling and dazzling simultaneously.

  • Obscure and dazzle.

21:28 Mimicry of the actor.

  • Mimicking a skunk to endear yourself with someone unlike you.

  • Mimicry and mimicry.

  • The pantomime of the mime, mimicry of the mimic.

  • Art vs art.

26:15 Camo as a symbol of confusion.

  • The role of camo in the city.

  • How camo has evolved in the modern world.

28:40 Turning camouflage into a threat.

  • The reversal of utility in camo and dazzle.

  • A densely packed spiral of signals and motivations.

30:44 Simulating media into the real.

  • The seduction by aesthetics and ideology.

  • Camo as a tactic for minimal distance