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The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

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When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.

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Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one.

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Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

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Society's preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.

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A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.

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What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.

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I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

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It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total.

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We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: December 25th, 1923

Died: November 4th, 2015

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