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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@johnrobb 1/ Nothing new under the sun, as they say. Not 'moral' or 'empathetic' as much as powerfully demonstrating the 'mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal' mechanism sustaining "the essential complicity between violence and human culture." (Girard)