This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry into the new forms of mimetic desire and scapegoating that are emerging in our culture of technologically enhanced voyeurism.
Gee, I just can’t wait for some Brit variant of to Bob Saget comes on the telly with “Bloopers of the London Security Surveillance System”.
I’ll bet they have footage of that cat killing and eating one of the sparrows at Mrs. Haversham’s bird feeder.
Also for the Girardian files: the parasailing Russian donkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHS2IqbCQH4
Quite a treat, when, in one story, one can combine the totalizing impulses of the surveillance state, the anti-humanist vitriol of animal “rights” activists, the indulgence of public spectacle, and an appeal innocence-by-victimhood. Any other modern pathologies in there that I missed?
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