The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi
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The Only Solution to the Problem of Infinite Escalating Conflict and Violence
The only adequate solution to the problem of escalating memetic conflict and violence would have to be something at the apex. And that means it would has to be something essentially religious, that they're always for this problem to truly be solved. I think that's why you can see a kind of the jesus moment and the christian moment as a kind of technically miraculous thing. It's almost technically miraculous that somehow it was revealed to us how this works,. We were given, as a civilization this opportunity to exit that that feedback loop of perpetual violence. That's what revelation is. For a truth to be revealed, rather than rationally exposed or rationally determined. Has to be transcended
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