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Ep 58: David Gornoski on Girard and Mimetic Theory

The Filter Podcast with Matt Asher

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The Creation of a New Cosmos

The idea of the scapegoat is a very old one that goes back way back in time, it was part of ancient rituals. When you have run away memetic desire in a negative sense, it's very hard to understand how humans still exists in the first place. You've got human history though? And how are we not just violent species out of existence if we have such runaway aggression to the point of extermination? We'll have to get into that after the breaki, now, i am son, i can see oone.

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