So in the last few weeks there's been some strange videos appearing online, strange articles

talking about people who are spitting or licking or doing all kinds of disgusting things

into public food, food that is in the supermarket and then putting it back on the shelf.

And so it is a pretty disgusting subject,

but I thought it would be important to talk about it

because it seems to represent a lot of things about our society

and a lot of things which help us understand

how religious people are

and what, let's say, our modern liturgical actions look like.

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

So not very long ago, there was a video which showed up online of a guy who was spitting

into some tea, iced tea, and then putting it back on the shelf.

And this was just one more video among several videos where we could see people, people licking ice cream, putting

it back on the shelf. There were different videos of people doing that. And the question became,

why on earth would anybody do that? And of course, the first reason, let's say the immediate reason is because they want to be famous.

They just want to attract attention.

They want people to look at them.

But there seems to be another reason behind that, or let's say a symbolic reason why this particular action is taking place right now.

And so what is going on here? Now, one of the things I've

been telling you guys about for quite a while now is the question about the symbolism of the

edge and the symbolism of what it means to come to the end of identities. When identities

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