Dimitri and Khalid examine the philosophical oeuvre of Peter Thiel’s favorite Stanford professor, the French Catholic academic René Girard, including: Girard’s core theories of mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism, his hot takes about why Christianity is different from every other religion, pagan gods-as-sacralized victims of communal violence, using the devil to drive out the devil, Thiel’s disturbing 2004 paper “The Straussian Moment”, his sus efforts to blend Girardian ideas with those of Leo Strauss and Nazi legal theorist Karl Schmitt to revitalize Western Civilization, becoming the Anti-Christ to stop the Anti-Christ (Greta Thunberg), JD Vance’s gallingly two-faced embrace of Girardian Catholicism, Thiel installing memetic rivalry as the core dynamic of 21st century social media platforms, and more… For access to the full-length episode, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.