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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Scavenger Mechanism
Gerard: The problem plaguing all hominoid societies was reciprocal violence, this combustible cycle of vengeance that sees one localized act of violence envelop an entire society in chaos. Gerard's claim here is that groups will be engaged in this form of contagion and the only cultures that survived are ones that uncovered a certain cultural technology to bring peace," he says. "The best way for us to make sense of the scapegoat mechanism is to turn to Sophocles' Theban trilogy"
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