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(Part 2 of the Girard series. Part 1 here) Today, the Western world and particularly the United States appears to be in the midst of a classic Girardian sacrificial crisis. Once-reliable social institutions crumble. The public loses trust in its authorities: political, financial, legal, and medical. The new generation is poorer and sicker than the| Charles Eisenstein |
Part 3-and-a-half of the Girard series Note to readers: This material didn’t quite fit into Parts 1, 2, or 3, but it has some relevant ideas and sets up Part 4, which is about the transcendence of the scapegoating pattern. Sacrificial victims are proxies for disorder, pollution, and evil. In normal times they come from various marginal and| Charles Eisenstein |
Wir leben ein Doppelleben, zivilisiert in wissenschaftlichen und technischen Dingen, wild und primitiv in den Dingen der Seele. Dass wir uns nicht mehr bewusst sind, primitiv zu sein, macht unsere gezähmte Wildheit umso gefährlicher. – Hans von Hentig Die natürliche Ordnung gerät aus den Fugen. Seuchen, Überschwemmungen, Dürreperioden, politische Unruhen, Krawalle und Wirtschaftskrisen folgen eine| Charles Eisenstein |