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Date Posted: 14:00:39 03/06/08 Thu
Author: Caitlin
Subject: Learning Hurts

*laughs* I'm going to play a bit with this quote from Violence and the Sacred. "Men cannot confront the naked truth of their own violence without the risk of abandoning themselves to it entirely" (82).

If we are to take this seriously and apply it to Girard's own teaching and revelation of the inherent violence of humanity, aren't we just endangering ourselves? The more we learn of our cyclical violent nature, the more we are prone to abandoning ourselves to it? I'm skeptical Girard.

I think I may have commented on this before, or perhaps I've just been thinking about it so many times that I feel like I already have, but what then is the point of learning from the history of violence? Are we not supposed to look back, recognize the faults and violence of our past in order to learn from it and work to prevent the same situation from occurring in the future? Is not Girard revealing our violence to us to show how we can stop it? Is this not EXACTLY what he says the Gospel texts do?

OOOoOo...I had fun with that.

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