314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning
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The Desire to Return to the Memetic Tradition of Sacrifice
We just we can't give up that innate desire. Did God really say more than anything? Right. I mean, the first sacrifice, the first human sacrifice, which thankfully doesn't happen is it's the woman you gave me. She made me eat it. Kill her. Don't kill me. Throw her under the volcano. Not me. That's why we prefer in the United States currently for for a while now we prefer this bloodless sacrifice to avoid the horrors of war. And yet when I talk with friends who are veterans, then we never talk about war movies. Oddly enough, because why would you do that? This is why I love war movies.
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