Quote of the Day

“We must renounce the gambit of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ – even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is to be found everywhere, and that our partial understanding of violence by no means assures us victory over it.” — René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

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These violent ends

Quote of the Day

“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before known on earth, a strange kind of nonculture or anticulture we call modern.” – René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

We call modern

Quote of the Day

“So long as globalisation was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world’s nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World’s fairs were staged in its honour, one after another. Now that globalisation is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not portend the era of universal reconciliation that everyone confidently expected.” – René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes

Waiting for the change