The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger
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Is the Scapegoat a God or a Hero?
The scapegoat has to be treated as guilty of the society's sins or misdoings, right? And so this is what am you know, when you have the society consumed by conflict, mdeni is able to coalesce around the collective victimization of this one individual. This is what allows for the scapegoat to be kind of re signified as a hero or a god, right? Because because the scapegoat has had this effect on the group of bringing peace, suddenly the scapegoat can become kind of deified and go from being seen as the bringer of crisis to that which has lifted the crisis. So it has to have this dual function.
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