the-scapegoat-mechanism-buys-unity-through-a-blamed-other

Under unbearable strain, the chaos of everyone against everyone collapses into the relief of everyone against one. Blame comes to feel like order, and a fragile togetherness is restored by expulsion: a counterfeit communion, unity recovered through shared violence against a blamed other. Rests on: [[mimetic-desire-hardens-into-rivalry-and-accelerates-to-crisis]]