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The high priest transferred the sins of the community to the goat and .. the animal was chased out and killed .. by forcing it to jump off a cliff which was fatal (3:45 min)
It was only as modern societies digest Sir James Frasier made an encyclopedic summary of scapegoat rituals in “The Golden Bow” (17th century), but he refused to admit that Victorian England still had scapegoats.
How it became possible to recognize that scapegoating is universal.
draw a distinction between sacrifice (44 min)
* the figure of Christ is the good prostitute who prefers to sacrifice her own interest to save the child
– against sacrifice as an instrument of death
– can not use the same word for both women
* this story shows the whole history of religion, the history of religion and two forms of sacrifice
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Why are we able to decode witch-hunting texts from the middle ages? (18:30)
* because we decode the text through Christianity
* the Oedipus myth is nothing but undecoded witchcraft
We didn’t stop burning witches because we had invented science.
We invented science because we stopped burning witches.
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The good individual and the bad institution is the primary myth of our time (16 min)
Girard argues that we should try to understand others
Blaming our ancestors implies that we think we would have done better. It is a form of scapegoating.
What is lacking is gratitude.
The Enlightenment wanted to keep Christian ethics and get rid of the rest
Nietsche wanted to get rid of ethics too. Nietsche discovered that God is for the victims: Aphorism 1052 in the will to power.
Nietsche is in the first age of political correctness (29 min)
Christ’s death represents heroic opposition to the crowd. Dionysius represents acceptance of the mob.
We killed God. What are we doing to atone for the death through rituals? This is the birth of religion. What are we going to do?
Heidegger seems to be after a neo-pagan view of the world. Trying to do away with Christianity in a more extreme way than Heidegger.
Magnitsky Act Supporter Bill Browder On Russia, Putin And American Security
Attorney Sergei Magnitsky uncovered widespread corruption in Russia. Then he was arrested.
Magnitsky died under mysterious circumstances in a Russian jail. His employer, Bill Browder, who was previously expelled from Russia, says Magnitsky was beaten to death.
Browder became a lead campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act, which was allegedly the reason for a meeting between Trump campaign staffers and a Kremlin-connected attorney last year.
This week, Browder plans to testify before the Senate, as committees will also meet privately with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
“We should be scared of Vladimir Putin we should do everything possible to contain his evil intentions,” Browder says.
Will Understanding Biology Eliminate Free Will?
A new tussle over an old story, and some long-held beliefs, with neurologist and author Robert Sapolsky.
Four years ago, we did a story about a man with a starling obsession that made us question our ideas of responsibility and justice. We thought we’d found some solid ground, but today Dr. Sapolsky shows up and takes us down a rather disturbing rabbit hole.
Malcolm Gladwell: ‘This is the golden age of journalism’
Despite declining profits and accusations of fake news, Malcolm Gladwell isn’t worried about the state of journalism today.
“This is the golden age of journalism,” the best-selling author argues.
Soon after launching Season 2 of his hit podcast Revisionist History, Gladwell sat down with Martine and Isabelle to chat about everything from Trump’s privilege to listening to Barbara Frum as child and his thoughts on The Beatles (not a fan).
- Do you think about childhood as a training ground, where difficulties can be helpful?
- White people are weary of race and want to move on. Indifference is harder to overcome than Opposition.