The Nature of Violence According to Rene Girard

Jean Valjean stared at him in amazement with an expression that no human tongue can describe.

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In our day and age, violence is legitimized and sacralized – as it’s always been. Nations rise and declare war on each other on the grounds that seem perfectly justifiable.

Since times immemorial, people have believed in sacred violence because there seems to be no other way to set things right when you have been wronged. If a member of ano…