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19 Aug 2026 Conversations with Tyler Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
“One of his fundamental points is that Christianity has created the conditions for the runaway violence precisely because the scapegoats don’t work anymore.”
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- Luke Burgis
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- 19 Aug 2026
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…In Girardian terms, is there going to be a scapegoat that leads to catharsis for us, or things remain unresolved? My understanding of Girard is that that world is gone, the world in which we can have a scapegoat that will lead to catharsis. We’re past that. We’ve seen too much. One of his fundamental points is that Christianity has created the conditions for the runaway violence precisely because the scapegoats don’t work anymore. Are we still in a Christian society, ideologically?…
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