#technically in girard's theory necessitate innocence of the victim. it does imply it. also the scapegoat mechanism | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

obrother1976 · 1 year ago

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girard would kill me for this but. there has to be at least one archaic society in star wars that, although they played no direct role in the death of vader, are not immune to the scapegoat mechanism and so see his death as an end to their suffering (under the empire), leading to his deifciation in their society. and obviously then also leading to the reenactment of his death as a sacrifical rite

#booooo this does not apply to him bc he is not part of that archaic society. they would not know his ass. and while a 'scapegoat' does not #technically in girard's theory necessitate innocence of the victim. it does imply it. also the scapegoat mechanism #necessitates a previous mimetic conflic. so. fail on all counts really.#but god i want this to work so bad #there could be a society on tatooine.... killing a guy as a sacrifice every year to replicate his death... the possibilities #everyone look away im purposefully bending and breaking girard for the stupid space wars guy...#sw #if any of u are like 'i've read girard and i get what u're talking about but y r u wording it like that. thats strange' -#- its bc i read the german translation and im translating that back into english.

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