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RT @nick_routledge: @antoniogm @roddreher The contemporary Franciscan master, @RichardRohrOFM “Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else...Low level religion almost always attacks the shadow instead of the ego, the symptom instead of the cause.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 May 2021

Thread. As in cyberspace, so below. As in meatspace, so above. On all sides, the murderous dismissal of the Other, experienced and promoted as coherent and socially beneficial, powerfully defines the anthropology of modernity. A hall of mirrors. The war of all against all. 1/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TornadoNate Girard, arguably our most incisive interpreter of the scapegoat mechanism which he described as "automatic, ingrained, unconscious and mimetic." His concern, he said, not religion, rather its anthropology and, as such, the staggering evolutionary significance of Jesus' murder.Quoted by@TornadoNate Girard, arguably our most incisive interpreter of the scapegoat mechanism which he described as "automatic, ingrained, unconscious and mimetic." His concern, he said, not religion, rather its anthropology and, as such, the staggering evolutionary significance of Jesus' murder.Quoted by@LeahBSassy I live and move fully, easily, sincerely and joyously among both deeply conservative and passionately liberal folk. Both camps, strikingly similar: sane, coherent and loving in ways their antagonists are themselves blind to and, equally, deluded, prejudiced, arrogant and hateful.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @ruchowdh @fhuszar @s0f1ra @__lucab @sagemintblue @mrtz Perhaps a closer examination of the dynamic referred to as “mimetic violence” may shed light on the forces driving such algorithmic amplification? Girard is a primary voice identifying this phenomenon, typically characterized as “unconscious , automatic, mimetic and universal.”Quoted by@ruchowdh @fhuszar @s0f1ra @__lucab @sagemintblue @mrtz Perhaps a closer examination of the dynamic referred to as “mimetic violence” may shed light on the forces driving such algorithmic amplification? Girard is a primary voice identifying this phenomenon, typically characterized as “unconscious , automatic, mimetic and universal.”