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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
What Is the Tail of the Lizard?
Darwin argues that human groups are prone to escalating conflict which tends towards self-destruction, what he called reciprocal violence. Reciprocal violence threatened all hominoid groups to the point where the only ones that survived were the ones that stumbled upon a cultural process as a solution, pagan religion. Religion is the humanity then, what the tail is to lizards, a necessary survival mechanism.
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