René Girard has shown that the solution mimetic crises, in pre-Christian societies, and those who ignored the message of Christ, was in the sacrifice of the scapegoat. Christ unveiled as the scapegoat for the massacre sanctioned the murder of the innocent by excellence: Christ's death on the Cross.
The climax of mimetic crisis appears to favor the Napoleonic wars; wars against other people and not a war Kingdom represented by soldiers against another. This conflict is even greater violence than before as a people (Prussia) was modeled another (La France) and is an obstacle in its path. War may not be as complete. The crescendo of 1870, 1917 (Verdun) and World War II part of this exacerbated mimetic rivalry that had not glimpsed Clausewitz. René Girard and completes the thought of this great soldier.
Clausewitz was almost the victim aware of his desire to imitate Napoleon. He understood before any other thinker, his contemporary Hegel, but with Hölderlin (the meaning of which the withdrawal is explained in the book), that wars were mimetic essence. Christ has shown that conflict resolution could be in the sacrifice of a scapegoat of innocent nature, the only solution for mankind is the one presented by Judeo-Christianity; that is to say Reconciliation.
If humanity could not at this stage of reconciliation, then violence, particularly in the light of Islamic terrorism, be unleashed without limit in the end of the world.
René Girard gives us a hard fact. Hope is in the truth of Christianity by Christ, his model, his inspiration.
"Complete Clausewitz" is a remarkable educational book and is essential reading for all who Girardian wishes to deepen the theme of mimetic desire.
