As a modern society we would like to assume that human sacrifice doesn't happen but just try to blaspheme a nation state and see how quickly people get ready wi

As a modern society we would like to assume that human sacrifice doesn't happen but just try to blaspheme a nation state and see how quickly people get ready with the pitch forks. The semantics have merely shifted. Rene Girard talks a lot about this. Projecting collective dissatisfaction onto others is how a society renews itself.