We are supposed to know that scapegoating is simply an ancient deluded way for societies to take back control without assuming responsibility. Yet in the EU as in the White House, scapegoating flourishes. Can we buck the trend?
Plagues require sacrificial victims. As a virus labelled after its crown-like shape wrecks havoc with societies, what can we learn from a King who lost his crown as the ultimate scapegoat?
We know that human societies require scapegoats to blame for the calamities that befall them.[1] Scapegoats are made responsible not only for the wrong-doing of others but for the wrongs that could not possibly be attributed to any other.
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