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315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating

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The Dilemma of the Sacrifice of Azlian

To resist victimization by means of counter-violence would simply stoke the proliferation of violence, seeks to contain and intensify the search for more and better victims. To submit passively to the sacrificial mechanism would do nothing to change it. Rather, that would only smooth the way for future victims and condemn them to invisibility. We seem doomed to serve out whichever way we turn. Humanity is caught in this bondage caught without even being able to name it directly.

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