Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@gracie88888 Tell me about it. We can all succumb to self-righteous, dominative nonsense, given half the chance, can’t we? A concurrent thirst for justice/equality can make us particularly myopic. Likewise, ‘oppression from below’ - blind, insidious, self-justifying. We become what we hate.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Jul 2021
@MelissaFloBix Niebhur noted that not only is kindness no protection from the prey of delusion, but that kind folk, _especially_, underestimate their own capacity for self deception. Rohr, too, echoes Girard in noting the scapegoat mechanism as mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal.
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