Cult of Novelty, Cult of Deception

Can we return to a culture of external mediation? This question should not be possible by the works of many so-called Girardian scholars, and yet it is because Girard explicitly states in the work “Innovation and Repetition” that we left the last phase of external mediation around 500 years ago: From Girard’s work “Innovation and Repetition”: “In the vulgar tongues, the need for the word appears…