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Interlude LXX: Sacrifice | Trade-Offs, Decision Making, René Girard, Ernest Becker, Hidden Costs, Deferred Consequences
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores one of the least discussed yet most fundamental realities of human existence: sacrifice.
Modern culture celebrates choice, freedom, growth, and possibility. Much less attention is given to the hidden costs that make those things possible. Every stable relationship, career, belief system, civilization, institution, and identity is built upon trade-offs. Every coherent structure depends upon something it agreed to lose.
This episode examines the invisible architecture of sacrifice.
Drawing on the work of anthropologist…
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