Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
What Is the Moral Paradigm?
In pagan society, we see their core institutions as grounded and legitimized by myths that can all be traced back to some founding murder. The prestige of certain myths will wane over time, whether it's corruption internally or challenge externally. When the rituals and prohibitions completely lose their grasp on a society, when they're incapable of fixing a society, then the process is repeated all over again.
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