Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Sept 2021

@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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