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

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Is There a Moral Agent in the Plague?

I think there was kind of an attempt to say, you know, this was am this was trumps virus, right? He was essentially the carrier and the vector of it. And therefore he had to be ritualistically expelled through the election and then by being banned from social media. I mean, so this is the structure of the edipus myth, which seard discuss in a passage,. Where you have a plague afflicting thebes, you have to figure out who the cause - not just biological but moral as well. By identifying and expelling that moral agent, you can cure the society, right? It didn't actually work. But it seems really clear there was this

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