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The background. Modern world imagines it can p-hack itself straight into Utopia. Girard may be articulating old wisdom, trouble is modern world has lost its connection to old wisdom altogether.

> The real insight would've been to propose a fun way out of this "mimetic hell" for society. Girard's observation is that this usually takes violence against a scapegoat -- certainly not a fun way out.

Not sure people are familiar with the New Testament story arc?