@lukeburgis Eliot: “Prophesy to the wind to the wind only for only The wind will listen.” The mimetic escalation of 'war of all against all' exponentiated to the planetary level? A global mob of False Deliverers offering up gathering points for national anguish? Why now? Girard, apt.
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Reciprocal action, mimesis, is both responsible for escalation and deescalation depending on what actions are being imitated. The reason that people fight more and more is that there is a truth approaching against which their violence reacts. Panic in the system. In the Christian world, it is Christ, the Son of God, who represents all the innocent victims and whose return is heralded by the very effects of the escalation to extremes. What will he declare? That we have gone crazy, that the adulthood of humanity, which he announced through the cross, is a failure. Postponing reconciliation always causes violence to increase. We have to think of reconciliation not as a consequence but as the reverse of the escalation to extremes. We have to at all costs avoid thinking of war as a passage towards reconciliation. It is more than ever up to each one of us to hold back the worst.” René Girard
@_Eric_Reinhart end/ The psych's archetypal, and its direction harrowingly predictable. And half-assed, any effort to address this escalating mimetic, global pattern of self-justifying violence amped up to the nation-state level, without factoring in conclusive intervention at a planetary scale.
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