1. Even the ideology of individuality and/or uniqueness is mass-produced.
2. Sexual reproduction, transmitting genetically coded traits, is copying. Consider sexual reproduction as montage, the cutting-up and combining of the mother’s and father’s DNA. Then the slow process of transformation and growth of the fetus.
3. There are different kinds of economies, all of which manage or appropriate mimetic energies.
4. Power functions through imitation. In Bertrand Russell’s definition, it is the ability to produce intended effects. Power, then, is always mimetic, since the effect is the repetition of the intention.
5. Most of what we call history is arguably the history of appropriation, and the history of one group stealing from another group.
6. Cinema: the compulsion to repeat in the face of trauma.

Mike Hoodboom quoting Marcus Boon