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267 - Luke Burgis - Revenge of the Scapegoat

The Symbolic World

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What Is the Theory of Sacrifice?

You end up having both confused identities. You have these confused kind of gender roles and gender identities, but you also have hyper versions of extremes. It's like you need a proper hierarchy that leads to some kind of real transcendence. Right. So I've, big part of Gerard's thinking does have to do with sacrifice and that's kind of what I would call the societal macro community level pattern that he recognized. Something that happens at the community level because when anybody is seeking transcendence, there's sort of something that has to die in order for them to achieve this sort of different quality of being that they're looking for. And I've listened to your kind of theory on sacrifice.

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