Plague and Myth with @fitnessfeelingz

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Outsider Theory

Geoff Shullenberger

49 episodes

9 months ago

Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects.

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Plague and Myth with @fitnessfeelingz

Outsider Theory

1 hour 57 minutes 17 seconds

3 years ago

Plague and Myth with @fitnessfeelingz

@fitnessfeelingz posted a recent Twitter thread arguing that Covid is a modern myth:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465794640481857542.html

By this he means not that the pathogen SARS-COV-2 is not real, but that the existence of the pathogen does not account for its manifold social and political impacts. To make sense of these, we turn to René Girard's understanding of myth as a social technology that binds societies together in response to a common enemy. We consider how Covid-19 has come to perform this function, and why its limited efficacy in this regard only spurs more ritualized responses to it.

https://outsidertheory.com/girards-revelation/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rene-girard-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-sacrifice