Things Hidden host David Gornoski analyzes the movie ‘Joker’ while using its themes about culture, scapegoats, hierarchy, doubles, envy, and the breakdown of myth with the support of the Mimetic theory founded by Rene Girard. Saturnalia and other winter solstice carnival festivals preceding sacrifice, Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus, Jesus and the Demoniac, and […]
Jesus’s persecution looks like the Saturnalia sacrificial festival of the Romans as well as the scapegoat ritual of Leviticus and the Greek pharmakos purge. This was a feature of Jesus’s plan in demonstrating the ugly reality of how humans make culture, order, and peace. Find out how this social mechanism Jesus uncovers operates in world […]
Diamond and Silk on Kavanaugh, the left’s accusatory mobs, and how they started a new media revolution bypassing media groupthink narratives. We also discuss Christianity vs state worship and Rene Girard’s scapegoat theory. This is video of A Neighbor’s Choice Radio Ep. 11 on NewsRadio WFLA 93.1 FM and 540 AM Orlando, original air date: […]