What does this mean? It’s not that we should be (or can be) free of mimetic desire. Being anti-mimetic is not like Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “antifragile”—it’s not merely the opposite of mimetic. Being anti-mimetic is having the ability, the freedom, to counteract destructive forces of desire. Something mimetic is an accelerant; something anti-mimetic is a decelerant. An anti-mimetic action—or person—is a sign of contradiction to a culture that likes to float downstream.
