The Killing of Jesus Is a Repeat of the First Murder, the Founding Murder

"The mimetic violence is unconscious. Doesn't know what it's doing," he says. "Don't count on the mob to tell you what they've really done." He adds that scapegoaters literally don't know what they are doing. That is a kind of unconscious. They believe the victim is guilty. And we decided he had to be expelled, so judged him according to the rules.