Girard's ideas, simply put, change the way you see the world around you and what grounds your feet on the earth. First, the FACT that Girard's theory exists itself is meaningful—he revealed a fundamental, almost-"physical"-like social law that was hidden in plain sight, discovering it in literature, anthropology, the myth, and the Bible; in recent decades modern neuroscience has added to its credibility. So to begin with, Girardian Theory is an ambitious, cross-discipline idea with broad and deep explanatory power; it itself is an existence proof of its own claim that there exist truths that are both accessible and yet "hidden", that secrets may exist in far more abundance than we realize AND YET....