Every economic crisis needs a pharmakos, the ancient Greek term for the annual ritual in which a scapegoat or two is expelled, or even executed, to purge the community, assuage collective guilt and make everyone doing the expelling feel purified and sanctimonious.
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Every economic crisis needs a pharmakos, the ancient Greek term for the annual ritual in which a scapegoat or two is expelled, or even executed, to purge the community, assuage collective guilt and make everyone doing the expelling feel purified and sanctimonious.