SACRIFICIAL DELEGATES BECOME MURDERERS SO WE CAN KILL THEM MORE EASILY

(Carolyn Marvin)

Blood Sacrifice and the Nation
(Cambridge University Press)

CAROLYN MARVIN, an award-winning author, is the Frances Yates Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania. Her book Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag constitutes a revolution in human thought, revealing the central dynamic underlying violence performed in the name of the nation-state.

 

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The essence of Marvin's idea may be summarized in the following sentence: ”Sacrificial delegates become murderers so we can kill them more easily.”

We pretend males are "aggressive warriors" (bad human beings) so that we can sacrifice them--and not feel guilty about it.

The theory of "male aggression"--promulgated so passionately and with such conviction--is a smoke-screen designed to disguise the truth or the "totem secret:" that blood sacrifice maintains the nation.

The most radical idea since Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection and Freud's idea of the unconscious.

Scholars remain terrified.