Post #1565145
2026-03-29 22:03 UTC
A lot of people in my culture want to change the world by sacrificing themselves as the scapegoat. It is the strategy of Jesus after all. The unintended effect of that strategy is that, well, you end up identifying with Jesus. Who is also God. So the risk is you get a bit of an inflated self-perception. (Or totally deflated self-perception, which is the other side of the same coin).
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@malte@radikal.social 2026-03-29 22:06
The key piece of the strategy I'm exploring is exactly to undermine the logic of the scapegoat by not taking ALL the responsibility of the problem on your shoulders. It is, after all, only a part of you that can identify with the scapegoat. And since you're not the only one - the person doing the scapegoating was talking about some "other people" in the first place - you're at most part of the problem. As soon as we temper things with proportions like that, the sadistic impulse loses power.