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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Moral Paradigm
We live in a moral paradigm that we are just given these fundamental, substratum objects of good and evil. And anything associated with the good is good. Anything associated with evil is completely off of bounds. Growing up in a culture listening to Sophocles' edifice will make patricide and incest completely out of bounds. So do our moral paradigms. Ground our key assumptions. They become the lens through which we interpret all phenomena. If you think about it, this is quite an unsettling thought. Are our practices just as cruel as the killing of twins in shamanistic societies? Are our rituals just as pointless as human sacrifice of the Aztecs? Are our desires just as
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