The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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The Scapegoat in Downton Abbey
This is a topic for week four in the course. Could you say a brief word? I think a lot of people are curious about this. How exactly does the scapegoat get selected? Like, why is a certain individual more likely to become the scapegoat than another? Yes. One thing he observed is that, um, if you look through myth, you will find there are these figures who are often, and this, i know gets into the next sort of phase of this, butwh often gods or heroes of some sort, but who have some who are identified with some flaw,. So think about edipusUm, right? Who basically walks with a limp um or. You
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