A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski
Village Global Podcast
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Using a Pseudonym Is a Stopgap
The idea of using a pseudonym, the thing I don't like about that as a solution for is I feel it's kind of like a stopgap. It reminds me of the rituals that societies would do in remembrance of their primordial scapegoat mechanism that they unconsciously stumbled onto that their ancestors did. So you stumble onto this mechanism that relieves tension by killing a common enemy. And so the scapegoat becomes a god bod because he brought the people together. He united the people in a transcendent way. The pseudonyms may actually open up an opportunity for more bullying and more nastiness and more awful things being set online when people have that anonymity.
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