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@SophiaCycles And the relationship to the Cross?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Feb 2021

Here’s how it works. When a group’s sacrificial rituals ‘function’, they transfer existing antagonisms onto a figure or group against whom all can unite, an act that miraculously dissolves existing tensions and replaces them with social bonding. 2/

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool @mrfewcr Indeed. 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.