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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
Girard's All-Encompassing Claim on the Violent Foundations of Society
The most important tools at society's disposal are prohibition, its social difference and ritual. These have nothing to do with truth, or more strongly, their proper functioning relies upon being grounded on a deceitful unanimity that can't be exposed to the light of truth. To give Girard's all-encompassing claim here, just some semblance of plausibility, we must look beyond edifice to sacrificial myths in Hindu culture. All religious rituals, spring from the founding victim, and all the great institutions of mankind, both secular and religious, spring from ritual.
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