Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@ceisenstein Precisely. And then, of course, there's the scapegoat mechanism exponentiated to the geopolitical level of nation-state dynamics. Country Club derangement.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Apr 2022

@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: @jeffreyatucker Relatedly, Schmitt is notable for his claim that political concepts are secularized theological concepts, whereas Taubes flip-sided the political aspect of theological claims. Moving on, Girard has more fully integrated the theo-political dimensions of the friend-foe mechanism.Quoted by@jeffreyatucker Relatedly, Schmitt is notable for his claim that political concepts are secularized theological concepts, whereas Taubes flip-sided the political aspect of theological claims. Moving on, Girard has more fully integrated the theo-political dimensions of the friend-foe mechanism.