Peter Thiel talks with Peter Robinson:
and if you go to the anthropological myth of the Enlightenment it’s the myth of the social contract so what happens when everybody is that everybody’s else’s throat what the Enlightenment says is everybody in the middle of the crisis sits down and has a nice legal chat and draws up a social contract and that’s maybe maybe that’s the founding myth the central lie of the Enlightenment if you will and what Girard says something very different must have happened and when everybody’s at everybody’s throat the violence doesn’t just resolve itself and maybe it gets channeled against a a specific scapegoat where the war of all against all becomes a war can of all against one