The Gospels enable us to see that human communities are subject to disorders that recur periodically and that can be resolved by the phenomenon of the unanimous crowd when certain conditions are satisfied. Such a resolution is rooted in mimetic desire and the scandals that always make human communities break down. The mimetic cycle begins with desire and its rivalries, it continues through the multiplication of scandals and a mimetic crisis, and it is resolved finally in the single victim mechanism, which is the answer to the question asked by Jesus: “How can Satan expel Satan?”
