From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Louis Subject: Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:43:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20191012144324.GY15371@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <87ftk4hbhu.fsf@gnu.org> <8eaaa9a2-a5ff-b64a-48bf-954150fecc63@gmail.com> <54616087df14f4a85875f57bd84877c7@poncy.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54616087df14f4a85875f57bd84877c7@poncy.fr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gnu-system-discuss-bounces+gcgs-gnu-system-discuss=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "gnu-system-discuss" To: Christophe Poncy Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org * Christophe Poncy [2019-10-11 23:10]: > On 2019-10-11 20:41, Taylan Kammer wrote: > > [=E2=80=A6] What position does he > > hold within today's GNU project other than being a wise old person > > (wise with respect to his topics of expertise) who is respected a lot= ? > >=20 >=20 > As a simple user, I see him as the guardian of the temple ("Chief > GNUisance"), and that reassures me because he embodies the free softwar= e > philosophy on its own. >=20 > > the maintainers and contributors collectively > > hold a lot more power than any single person. >=20 > IMO, the GNU essence is more powerful than the sum of its hackers. >=20 > > So in a way I guess I don't really see what the statement > > is trying to accomplish >=20 > It visibly sets the scapegoat mechanism in motion, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating#Scapegoat_mechanism Thanks. Good for my reference for further propaganda. Literary critic and philosopher Kenneth Burke first coined and described = the expression scapegoat mechanism in his books Permanence and Change (19= 35),[14] and A Grammar of Motives (1945).[15] These works influenced some = philosophical anthropologists, such as Ernest Becker and Ren=C3=A9 Girard= . Girard developed the concept much more extensively as an interpretation = of human culture. In Girard's view, it is humankind, not God, who has nee= d for various forms of atoning violence. Humans are driven by desire for = that which another has or wants (mimetic desire). This causes a triangula= tion of desire and results in conflict between the desiring parties. This = mimetic contagion increases to a point where society is at risk; it is at = this point that the scapegoat mechanism[16] is triggered. This is the poi= nt where one person is singled out as the cause of the trouble and is exp= elled or killed by the group. This person is the scapegoat. Social order = is restored as people are contented that they have solved the cause of th= eir problems by removing the scapegoated individual, and the cycle begins = again. The keyword here is "content". Scapegoating serves as a psychologi= cal relief for a group of people. Girard contends that this is what happe= ned in the narrative of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure in Christia= nity. The difference between the scapegoating of Jesus and others, Girard = believes, is that in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, he is shown = to be an innocent victim; humanity is thus made aware of its violent tend= encies and the cycle is broken. Thus Girard's work is significant as a re= construction of the Christus Victor atonement theory.=20 Important is free software philosophy and as such it is not political. Jean