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Rene Girard CBC Interview Notes
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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.
