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267 - Luke Burgis - Revenge of the Scapegoat
The Symbolic World
The Mimetic Quality of Suicide
The idea of incest, cannibalism and sodomy all have to do with self causation. The scapegoat mechanism can happen in two forms: pure self preservation or a community needing to reconstitute itself through this false transcendence. In ancient cultures, if an animal was going to be sacrificed, that animal would need to be dressed up like a human before it worked. So there's something sort of weird about that. Yet we have to sort of see ourselves in them in some way for the sacrifice.
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