Scapegoat

First there was the accusation. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent. Not accepting responsibility for our actions is our original sin. So why are we doing this? Actually, the blame game makes no sense. It's just a system we've developed to divert our guilt and avoid taking responsibility. But we put too much pressure on this system; It seems that nothing is our fault... Marx blamed the capitalist system, Dawkins blamed religion. Freud thought that all of this stemmed from sex. Larkin blamed our families, Atkins blamed the potato. Mohammed Al Fayed still believes Prince Philip is guilty. We once blamed fate or God, now our genes and upbringing are to blame. We don't seem to be any closer to taking full responsibility for our actions, and we can always find someone to blame, a scapegoat. The book in your hand draws attention to how human beings have coped with the historical and social disasters they have encountered from thousands of years ago to the present day. It shows how dependent we are on a scapegoat to whom we can blame our social or individual failures. The scapegoat cases cited by Charlie Campbell from history, many of which seem laughable at the level of development we have reached today, underline how little we have fundamentally changed as humans. As human beings develop mentally and technologically, they only create more clever scapegoats to whom they can blame their own actions. There is a plausible explanation for the existence of a scapegoat in every period of time. However, deep down, each of us knows that the scapegoat to whom we place all the responsibility is innocent.



Number of Pages: 160

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Yayinlari

First Edition Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 160

Language: Turkish