Ep. 1487 The State and the Roots of Collective Violence
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
David Gornoski has taken what sounds like rather an obscure topic -- the mimetic theory of Rene Girard -- and showing the liberty movement how it helps us understand the state and collective violence.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1487. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
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| 0:39.1 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Speaking today with radio host David Garnaski. |
| 0:44.6 | He hosts a neighbor's choice on news radio 93.1 WFLFM in Orlando, also 540 a.m. |
| 0:52.6 | And he's been making the podcast rounds talking a bit about |
| 0:57.2 | Renee Gerard and Mimetic Theory, which he says should give the Liberty Movement some additional |
| 1:04.1 | resources in our intellectual toolkit in our analysis of the state, collective violence, |
| 1:10.5 | and where a lot of the ways people act and how they think come from. |
| 1:15.1 | And when he was interviewed on the Bob Murphy Show, the response was very favorable. |
| 1:21.0 | And people felt like they were getting flashes of insight through the whole conversation. |
| 1:25.0 | So when he approached me recently, I decided, yep, |
| 1:27.7 | doggone it. I haven't had David Garnoski on the show yet. Going to do that right now. Garnowski, |
| 1:32.3 | by the way, G-O-R-N-O-S-K-I. David, welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me. It's a great |
| 1:38.2 | privilege to be here. You've covered this topic on the Bob Murphy Show and on the podcast of the Libertarian Christians website. |
| 1:47.1 | And you sent me some stuff recently and I thought, yeah, it's about time. I should have done this a long time ago. |
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