@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."
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Copy of tweet here 2/ Ultimately, it transpires that the precarious thread of a 'transcendent falsehood' is all that secures the social bonding and psychological stability of societies complicit in collectively sanctioning 'morally-justified violence' against an internal scapegoat or foreign foe. Image of tweet here: Copy of tweet here: "Perhaps the clearest sign that we’re making progress will be when more policy proposals sincerely surprise us.” The contagion, now globally self-justifying. As Girard intuited, such totalizing, mimetic escalation ultimately warrants conclusive intervention at a planetary level.
@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)
