315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Myth of the Burning of Rome
Myth is the memory of a clean conscience that never registered the presence of a victim at all. The continuity of consciousness between producers and consumers of a myth from mouth to mouth generation to generation is precisely the invisibility of the victim as a victim. These myths are stories that reflect the scapegoat of it, but don't describe it. They're the legacy of a collective killing. Why we got to be even if we're the good guys. Exactly. So Yahweh, the Lord says I'm going to actually overturn even the foundations. Yeah. It's like, whew, right. That's a judgment.
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