Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
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The logic of violence is changing. Once upon a time our most powerful weapons were sticks and stones. Today we have nuclear weapons which could destroy the world many times over. And they almost did in close calls such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this final lecture, we're going to focus on apocalypse. After all, the specter of apocalypse has faded from the public consciousness ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. Gerard has good reasons to believe that it's going to make a quick, unsuspected and devastating return.
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