He will go down in history as a gimmick, if at all. How can anybody like Peter Thiel be so invested in his ideas? They're just interesting "plot devices", for the lack of a better word, at best. In Girard, there's no ethics, there's no metaphysics, and there isn't a sense of an argument as to why other competing drives are less influential.

I just don't get it. It's like pointing at railroads and saying "now THIS is what drove modern society." Kind of? Maybe it was really important for a bit, and still has important applications? Certainly not your highest draft pick though.