315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Power of the Mob
In the absence of law or government escalating cycles of retaliation are the original social disease, as in Hamlet. Without finding a way to treat it, human society can hardly begin. The means to break this vicious cycle appear as if miraculously. An effective leader is a leader that can actually tap into the violence of the mob.
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