The first stone is no longer thrown by the crowd, it is thrown by the algorithm that pays for it, a brief economic history of the scapegoat
The mechanism is ancient, and its effectiveness has never depended on truth. A community disturbed by a crisis it cannot name converges, sooner or later, on a person or a group it expels in order to recover a peace that, in reality, never resolved anything at its root. The philosopher René Girard described this process … CONTINUE READING →