By Peters\u2019 accounting, Girard\u2019s analysis starts when the Moral Breakdown truly begins.\u00a0 That is, the Moral Breakdown arrives when a cultural crisis obliterates the stable social differences produced by punishing the \u201crepresentatives of the Moral Breakdown\u201d, that is, the scapegoats.<\/p>\n
Does this mean that the Moral Breakdown is always postponed, even at the moment of its arrival, by changing the \u201ctype of person\u201d who goes into the empty slot of \u201cscapegoat\u201d.<\/p>\n
Let us say that some Christians have convinced enough people to admit that the Bureaucracies of Modern Law and Welfare are travesties.\u00a0 Then the Bureau and its attendant outlets in the Conformist Progressive Media will blame these Christians for \u2013 well, any number of things \u2013 in order to show that these Christians embody the Moral Breakdown (it would not be happening if not for them).\u00a0 Mob action ensues. The Christians become scapegoats.<\/p>\n
Justificationself<\/sup>(\u201cstate of being\u201d(\u201cwith Cupid\u201d)) becomes:<\/p>\n \u201cThe nominal \u2018missions\u2019 of the Bureaucracies of Law and Welfare are identified as \u2018good\u2019 and the questioning by Christians \u2018bad\u2019 in a rhetoric of sacrifice(the state of joy that comes from mob action (while craving for respectability))\u201d<\/p>\n Girard\u2019s model suggests that the Moral Breakdown has been going on since the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Peters\u2019 accounting, Girard\u2019s analysis starts when the Moral Breakdown truly begins.\u00a0 That is, the Moral Breakdown arrives when a cultural crisis obliterates the stable social differences produced by punishing the \u201crepresentatives of the Moral Breakdown\u201d, that is, the scapegoats. Does this mean that the Moral Breakdown is always postponed, even at the moment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n