Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @johnrobb

@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)

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor Also, psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness succumbing to a form of psychotic absolutism and the mimetic frenzy of the mob; the psychopathology of evil's denial. @RichardRohrOFM: “Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else."Quoted by@pauljpastor Also, psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness succumbing to a form of psychotic absolutism and the mimetic frenzy of the mob; the psychopathology of evil's denial. @RichardRohrOFM: “Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else."Quoted by@ceisenstein Precisely. And then, of course, there's the scapegoat mechanism exponentiated to the geopolitical level of nation-state dynamics. Country Club derangement.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @frederickbmills @MintPressNews The network swarm, economic terrorism, cloud authoritarianism, nuclear escalation and anti-war dissent. Trends? “Where American media goes, so goes the Earth.” - Helen Caldicott, PSR, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. @OregonPSRQuoted by@frederickbmills @MintPressNews The network swarm, economic terrorism, cloud authoritarianism, nuclear escalation and anti-war dissent. Trends? “Where American media goes, so goes the Earth.” - Helen Caldicott, PSR, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. @OregonPSR