Alberg claims to have an intuition for what that \u201csomething\u201d was, or maybe, is.<\/p>\n
He writes, \u201cread the text with the spirit of forgiveness\u201d and you will begin to see that \u201csomething\u201d.<\/p>\n
Forgive those who have forgotten.\u00a0 Forgive those who have placed it under erasure.<\/p>\n
Look closely at the consequences of the forgetting and the placing under erasure.<\/p>\n
Look at the victims of the forgetting.\u00a0 Look at the victims placed under erasure.<\/p>\n
Look.<\/p>\n
At first, you may be overwhelmed by the gross mechanics of forgetting and erasing, forgetting and erasing, veiling the \u201csomething\u201d so effectively that it appears as \u201cthe empty space that once held the \u2018object\u2019 of desire\u201d.<\/p>\n
Such are the machinations of mimesisunconstrained<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Mimesisunconstrained<\/sup> operates like an automaton that has lost \u201cthe faith of the one who once believed in it\u201d. \u00a0It retains an animating principle.\u00a0 It strains to produce some product; to accomplish some goal.<\/p>\n All it knows is products and goals.\u00a0 It produces monsters; beautiful, sublime monsters.\u00a0 Like Nietzsche and Rousseau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alberg claims to have an intuition for what that \u201csomething\u201d was, or maybe, is. He writes, \u201cread the text with the spirit of forgiveness\u201d and you will begin to see that \u201csomething\u201d. Forgive those who have forgotten.\u00a0 Forgive those who have placed it under erasure. Look closely at the consequences of the forgetting and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-the-scapegoat-girard"],"yoast_head":"\n