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Jun 24 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. Innovation used to mean heresy. But now it’s a god we all worship.
A thread on René Girard’s prescient 1990 essay, Innovation and Repetition—from theology to tech, from Montaigne to Marx, from mimesis to modernity.
2. “Innovation,” from the Latin innovare, meant renewal from within—not novelty.
For centuries, it was a dirty word. Dangerous. Heretical. Disruptive in the worst sense.
