The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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Is It a Scandal or a Stumbling?
Blake: The individual gets scapegoaded, has some kind of peculiar trait that makes them stand out. But i'm sensing also that there must be some kind of sacastic component also, ike a kind of randomness involved. Blake: Often the people who are, who are mobbed in some way, they're trying to articulate something, but they're, they stumble, right? And and so they. attract some of this attention and sort of galvanizes the collective in this negative form around them.
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