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Date Posted: 16:22:47 02/10/08 Sun
Author: Caitlin
Subject: Problem with Provocation

OK. I find that I'm having a bit of an issue with Girard in chapter 7 of "The Scapegoat". He keeps mentioning this in various different ways, but it really stuck out to me in the chapter "The Crimes of the Gods".

"In the myth Cadmus represents both the power that created disorder - he sowed the dragon's teeth - and the power that created order - he saved humanity by destroying first the dragon and then the multitude of warriors, draco redivivus, the new monster of a thousand heads issued from the remains of the former monster. Cadmus therefore is one of those gods who always provoke disorder but "only" in order to put an end to it" (Scapegoat 87).

I'm just having a hard time wrapping my mind around this idea that one has to provoke disorder in order to put an end to it. If disorder is not a problem, why bother aggravating or bringing it about? It seems a little strange to me. This whole idea of ritualized violence and disorder "to prevent" violence and disorder when it's not causing a problem seems a very foreign concept to me.

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