Sacralized violence against outsiders provokes reciprocal vengeful cycles that degrade culture

Evidence

Sacred violence is that expressed for no reason other than to extend and protect the sacralized community. Such violence becomes itself as much the sacral condition as the community itself (in this context, the racially ordained nation-state). Often, the condition of sacralization overshadows the interests of community members, supposed spiritual wellbeing trumping other valued considerations. But conceived so nebulously and more or less indiscriminately, sooner or later such violence is likely to redound, kicking off reciprocal cycles of vengeant violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1834

Categorization

• DEFINE: Uses Girard’s ‘purifying violence’ concept and shows its breakdown into ‘impure’ reciprocal violence.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnically absolutist communitarianism produces its own violence; Sacred community violence inevitably triggers reciprocal cycles of vengeance.; Group isolation produces collective misperception and redirected violence against outsiders (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Sacred community violence inevitably triggers reciprocal cycles of vengeance. #corroborates (0.95)
• Cultures built on subjugation provoke destruction from the suppressed. #expands (0.82)
• Group isolation produces collective misperception and redirected violence against outsiders #expands (0.80)
• Oppressive cultures face destruction by their own suppressed groups #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 570
• Ethnically absolutist communitarianism produces its own violence #expands (0.75)
• Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1818