Outsider Theory

Plague and Myth with @fitnessfeelingz

Dec 22, 2021

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Is There a Moral Nature?

04:38

Public Health Interventions Are Not as Good as Their Execution

04:28

Is Covid a Social Technology?

03:27

Introduction

3min

The Myth of Covid

6min

The Myth of Undifferentiation

6min

Is Covid a Social Technology?

3min

Is There a Moral Agent Who Could Be Identified as the Cause of the Plague?

6min

The Myth of the Apocalypse

2min

Coved Response

5min

Covetus Is Arguably the First Such Thing on a Global Scalerit

3min

Is the Vaccination a Kind of Right?

5min

10.

Amit's Really Quite Remarkable, Right?

1min

11.

Is There a Need for a Sacrificial Right?

3min

12.

Vaccination

3min

13.

Is There a Way to Stop the Cycle of Recrimination?

6min

14.

Is There a Global Crisis?

3min

15.

Is the Market Really a Threat to Global Capitalism?

6min

16.

The New Sscapegoading Machine

3min

17.

Is Bill Gates Really a Good Guy?

3min

18.

Is There Any Lived Experience That Drives History?

5min

19.

The Emergent Processes of Humanity, You Know?

3min

20.

Is the Mob in Motion?

1min

21.

The Spirit of Accusation, Gerard Identifies With the Principle of the Sort of Satanic Rid

5min

22.

Is There a Systemic Function to Persecution?

6min

23.

Long Covid

2min

24.

Are You Trying to Achieve a Better Deal With the Democrat Party? And I Don't Think So.

4min

25.

I Think the Division in the u.s. Is Kind of North South, Right?

6min

26.

I'm Just Like, Ah, Because It's So Non Sensical, Right?

5min

27.

Is There a Moral Nature?

5min

28.

Public Health Interventions Are Not as Good as Their Execution

4min

29.

I Think It's a Very, Very Important Point

4min

@fitnessfeelingz posted a recent Twitter thread arguing that Covid is a modern myth:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465794640481857542.html

By this he means not that the pathogen SARS-COV-2 is not real, but that the existence of the pathogen does not account for its manifold social and political impacts. To make sense of these, we turn to René Girard's understanding of myth as a social technology that binds societies together in response to a common enemy. We consider how Covid-19 has come to perform this function, and why its limited efficacy in this regard only spurs more ritualized responses to it.

https://outsidertheory.com/girards-revelation/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rene-girard-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-sacrifice