Where does the vital lesson lead? What question does It raise?
Nietzsche’s placement of himself as ‘object that brings all into relation’ by posing as both Dionysius and Socrates; that is, as both insane and reasonable; could only occur if Nietzsche hammered out a new specialization, a new language of theoretically aesthetic tragic drama. Such an effort could only happen due to the purely symbolic qualities of speech alone talk.
To me, that means that Girard’s theory of mimetic rivalry applies primarily to the era of unconstrained complexity.
Consequently, I shall label it mimesisunconstrained.
Now I can re-present the question that I started with:
Could there have been a different mimetic rivalry in the era of constrained complexity, that is, in the era that we evolved in (and that began to lose its mooring starting 7800 years ago)?
If so, I may label it mimesisconstrained?