A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski
Village Global Podcast
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Animals Resolve Their Conflict With Imitation
"There's a human fascination with drama and, and conflict," he says. "You can feel yourself kind of magnetically attracted to it because you're a drilling kicks in just by being in proximity to it" The Bible is clear that the idea of the eye for an eye came from ancient times when people feared reprisals if they did not accept their losses. In today's society, we are so imitationally driven there has to be a way to discharge bad energy - or else we wouldn't have existed as a species, Ben argues.
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