315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Myth of the Holocaust
Rituals of sacrifice originated in this way. So the victim becomes a criminal, a god, or both memorialized in myth. At Nuremberg, you have what was 13 or whatever, the soldiers that were killed, that he then mythologized and elevated to level of euro. How do you get children to fight for a war that they have no vested interest in? Well, because they were raised to believe in this myth.
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