The Dark Side of Humanity

Ino a: We use the realm of fiction to approach the things that most terrify us with an illusion of safety. The dark side of humanity is absolutely fascinating, i think we should be fascinated by it because we need to understand it. And so we isolate someone or an event, and a sacrificial victim happens, and then they're sent off into the wilderness as a way of expelling that tension. Ino a: I'm a great admirer of rene girard and his scapegoat theory, which is that we are naturally competitive creatures who contend for fixed resources with endless competition. And those tensions need to be earthed. So this is how we can try to understand