Summary of text [comment] page 72

[Think^{Progressive_TV} is not Christian.

It loves its gods … er … celebrities (the golden calves).

It pretends to love its victims (the ornament-bearing but silent target audiences).

It hates evil, twisted, and immoral exploiters.

Therein lies the fraud.

The exploiters turn out be projections by think^{Progressive_TV} onto people minding their own business.

As such, think^{Progressive_TV} parodies of Schoonenberg’s concept of ‘real love’.]

[Progressive TV calls the golden calves and their ornament-bearing, yet unknowing, victims into a mimetic contagion. Both are called to turn against the unwitting scapegoat, the one who is trying to mind her own business.

This is precisely what Paula Dean and George Zimmerman had in common.

Both were trying to mind their own business. One minded a cooking show. The other minded his own neighborhood.

Then, they stumbled into stereotypic events, placing the golden calves and their ornament-bearing viewer-victims on the same side.

What opportunities!

Both events were made for TV^Progressive.

The golden calves could proclaim their concern for the victims (standing for the true victims, the television viewers, who cannot talk back and are, therefore, disempowered).

The viewers could be shocked and outraged (thus, acting out frustration and anger at their own disempowered condition, even though they are accomplices to their own disempowerment).

Both Dean and Zimmerman were labeled think^anti-object and conscience^anti-object.

Both were destroyed by scapegoating.]

[Rene Girard framed these phenomena in terms of the anthropological importance of the mimetic contagion.]

[Who are these monsters?

They are competent people who do not consider themselves either golden calves or alienated victims. Plus, they do not watch Progressive TV.

These competent people are the true scapegoats.

They are often portrayed as incredibly greedy business people. They are depicted as swindlers so greedy that they will cheat any victim out of her ornaments in return for nothing (in the same way that television cheats the viewer-victim’s time).

These “businessmen” are only projections of think^pro-object‘s covetous imagination. Since they are imaginary, they can be totally improbable.

Have you ever seen one?

Television^Progressive teaches the viewer how to be stupid.]

[Progressive TV constantly presents its core truth (falsehood) in a wide variety of programs.

The golden calves (standing for the television organizations) and victims (standing for the television viewers, who cannot talk back and are lured into surrendering their gold ornaments) are on the same side, the think^pro-object side, against the think^anti-object monsters.]

[The object is the victim.

Both think^pro-victim and its objectified victims despise the exploiters.

The exploiters are responsible for the victims.

The exploiters are think^anti-object and conscience^anti-object.

They are the bad ones.

They must be identified and destroyed by the good ones.]

[Here, I come to the foundational TV^Progressive truth … I mean … lie.

Think^{mainstream_TV} couples actors, who portray fabulously gifted people who love ‘the object that brings us into organization’, with actors, who portray ‘the victims that require us to organize’. The former are stand-ins for the golden calves. The latter are stand ins for the viewers, whose little gold pieces go into fashioning organization-loving golden calves).]

[Oh look, a rich person.

Must be a think^anti-object.

Who will save the innocent victims?]

[How many TV shows have you seen where the wealth destroying Progressives are the bad guys?

None.

Then again, I suppose that ‘dramas showing how bureaucratic welfare rules produce a 70% illegitimacy rate’ might seem a little dreary. Better to write about evil millionaire poltergeists who threaten poor little people, even though these characters do not exist except in the Progressive theological framework.]