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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Johnathan Bi
The Myths of the World - Prohibitions and Institutionalization
There was a Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha and Muhammad. And we've just discovered that the Trojan War did in fact happen as well. Gerard then asks us to extend the same intuitions to the myths of your which we don't have real historical records of. This is the fourth and final step of the scapegoat mechanism, institutionalization. The point of these institutions are to use lessons learned in a myth to stop future societal collapse.
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