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Date Posted: 20:26:15 04/06/08 Sun
Author: JPJ II
Subject: Positive imitation gone wrong...

Plutarch, when writing of Lysander, states that "ambitious spirits, who are otherwise well enough fitted to command, often fail to achieve great exploits through sheer jealousy of their equals in reputation, because they turn the very men who might have helped them into their rivals in virtue." Plutarch, though not necessarily attempting to reveal mimetic rivalry, is at least intuiting the effects of rivalry in his society. Lysander, and many other Spartans for that matter, forms detrimental rivalries with others not for money or for power or even for women. No, in Sparta, men form their destructive rivalries around who can be the most virtuous, who can be the best son of Sparta. Without something *coughJesuscough* to guide their mimeticism, even a positive imitative rivalry over flippin VIRTUE can and will get ugly.

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