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wait, sf: you're talking about a sacrificial order.
the ritual purification of a community through the designation of a scapegoat--who embodies *the idea* of collective sin/guilt (but strictly speaking need not be personally guilty of anything).
well gee, that sounds a whole lot like the inner logic of the discourse of "the war on terror" and all kinds of other delightfully reactionary ways of thinking about the purification of the community so as to better enable it to stride manfully forward and fulfill its national destiny--lebensraum ho....
did you just discover rene girard or something?
maybe i'm wrong: could you try to be more explicit?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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