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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Rituals Act as a Release Valve if Prohibitions Lose Power
Gerard: Rituals act as a release valve if prohibitions lose power, if contagion threatens society again. He says modern examples of carnival is that it's an imitation of the frenzy of the state of contagion. Gerard sees another seemingly completely different set of institutions, and he calls them rituals.
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