Thursday, April 23, 2009

They're coming to take me away, haha

Karen Hall is sure that the libs are legislating to take us all away.

I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I might enjoy a few weeks, or years, of manual labor at Camp I Won.

By the way: Forget at your peril that unconverted groups - right or left, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative - unconverted groups are ALWAYS on the prowl for scapegoating victims. It is, by definition, anthropologically speaking, how such human gatherings are founded and maintained. The only question is how efficient the scapegoat mechanism - Girard's "single victim mechanism" - is at present.

If it is working "well", as in archaic societies, it only takes one victim to revitalize a group. If it is losing effectiveness, it will try to surcharge itself in one of two ways: either it will increase the number of victims or it will increase the prestige of its victims - genocide or regicide.

Haven't you started reading René Girard yet?

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