315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Hero Myth of Maximus
Christianity is just one more of those myths, he says. Every culture on Earth ever has this as a part of their post-death myth. So instead of yearning to go home to my farm, I yearn to going home to my heavenly farm,. Yeah, to the father. But I have to wait for it. I can't earn that. And again, next, that's the conceit of glad he dies in the end, spoilers, and gets toGo home to his farm, but his wife and kid are alive. It's Elysium. That's Elysium, exactly. Right? He doesn't actually die for himself. No, he dies for the empire
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