Rene Girard and Violent mimesis
FOUND: The Spirituality of Nonviolence: On Not Becoming What We Hate
The more a tragic conflict is prolonged, the more likely it is to culminate in a violent mimesis,” writes Rene Girard; “the resemblance between the combatants grows ever stronger until each presents a mirror image of the other.” With what visage, then, did the United States emerge “victorious” from forcible resistance to Hitler’s evil?
