314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning
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The Mimetic Crisis
In order to prevent the destruction of his kingdom, Satan makes out of his disorder itself at its highest heat, a means of expelling himself. He foments and exasperates mimetic rivalries to the point of transforming the community into a furnace of scandals. The Satan who expels is the same furnace when it reaches a point of incandescence sufficient to set off the single victim mechanism. It's always ending human. Don't you want to get rid of racism? Don’t you want equality for all people? Don"t you want to save grandma?
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