The mechanism that reintroduces difference into a situation in which everyone has come to resemble everyone else is sacrifice.
Girardian/mimetic rivalry amongst theater kids. There was a group of young theater people sitting in the front row of Morning Journal last night—who were making a lot of overtly rude responses that went, like, beyond the bounds of normal reactions to the play. Obvious disruption and hater-ism for its own sake; scripted dissatisfaction clearly prepared in advance.