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The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger

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Are We in Wet? Is That How You Read It?

The scapegoat or the sacrificial victim in pre christian religions were precisely the entities who were then lionized and valorized as gods in those, those society's myths. Iht is what a sort of gerardian account would lead us to expect, which is that this attempt to construct a new kind of cohesive whole cannot be ved without designating some scapegoat. And in fact, that is exactly what we've seen at every point,. ok, ok, fascinating.

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