Rene Girard's Philosophy to Understanding the Crypto Landscape

How Girardian mental models help understand booms and busts

We have written about French historian and philosopher Rene Girard before, especially how he has emerged as a Silicon Valley favorite counting Peter Thiel, Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan as his followers. The founding principles of Girard’s thesis is mimesis.

Mimetic theory suggests that we watch and learn by copying others, and the most important…