314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning
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The Unanimity of Consent
The gospel, the gospels enable us to see that human communities are subject to disorders that recur periodically. Such a resolution is rooted in memetic desire and scandals that always make human communities break down. And so then who was sacrificed? Me and my family? Other people? Yeah. Who were expelled, who were canceled, who were excommunicated, literally. Then after the fact, was there any repentance? No, because there's no catharsis in that. It is the crowd, the unanimous crowd saying we have to sacrifice somebody. Even if the crowd has proven to be wrong, to have been wrong, they refuse to repent.
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