Ep. 21: Luke Burgis: The Economy of Desire: Rene Girard on Commerce and our Everyday Life
The Moral Imagination
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The Jews Are Often Scapegoated, Right?
In Gerard's book, the scapegoating. He says that you get this kind of negative reciprocity which brings people into opposition with each other and is responsible for the predominance of the same. In our own time, we've had a similar experience, which has become absolute because it's been projected on the, on the entire universe. We kind of blame the world. So if you don't just need to loosen social order, he says, it must be totally destroyed.
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