[Buddha-l] Ethical Dilemmas

[Dan Lusthaus]

Joy,

>"According to René Girard, human culture has been founded on two 
>principles,
>which he calls "mimetic rivalry" and the "surrogate victim mechanism."

The first he takes from Erich Auerbach -- whose book Mimesis is still a 
classic.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Auerbach


The idea of "a long series of primal murders, repeated endlessly" he takes 
from Freud who postulated this as an originary taboo trauma, particularly as 
parricide.

> I still don't see what you meant by bugs and bug exterminators...

Did you follow the link to the story about the grasshoppers?

Dan