Goat Cheese.
Presentation Handout: Scapegoating section
Handout Part 3: The Final Test
Emerging from the great cave of the beast,
Battered, bruised and yearning to feast,
On the brink of starvation, he squinted to see,
The most scrumptious of goats that ever did be,
“Who are you, my god send, I must see you clearer”,
“I am your dinner, my friend, now look in this mirror”,
And with the last of his strength he did look,
And within that grand mirror was a book,
And upon that book fine words did float,
That spoke of the origins of the scapegoat,
As part of Yom Kippur a goat was sent to the wild,
Legend says that it carried the sins of both man and child,
Or so it was said, but perhaps misinterpretation,
For in the case of Leviticus it’s all about translation,
The term for fallen angel “Azazel” it was originally wrote,
The translation was of “Ezozel” which translates to escape goat,
In Christian Theology the story is changed,
The third book of the Torah is all rearranged,
The scapegoat is but symbolic representation,
Of Jesus who carried our sins to damnation,
Besides being biblical, it was also a ritual,
To cast out a beggar in Ancient Greece was habitual,
Usually the cripple was beaten or stoned,
In response to disaster the man was disowned,
I bring you now to world war two,
The German economy is looking quite blue,
Scapegoating was used as a political tool
And singled out the Jewish, their method quite cruel,
The metaphor is used in movies and books,
The scapegoat is blamed for the misgivings of crooks,
To analyze work in accordance to scapegoating,
The psychological origins are important in noting,
With a flash disappeared the strange words of history,
How the man then heard the goat in his head is a mystery,
“For this next section I will use your mind”,
“To today’s scapegoat origins you must not be blind”,
“It has long been known that you’re a violent race”,
“It is because of this appetite that you must replace”,
“When the source of your anger simply cannot be touched”,
“It must be displaced and the scapegoat is clutched”,
“The ability for an object to satisfy the madness”,
“Is directly proportional to the size of the badness”,
“If my pencil is broken I won’t kill your mother”,
“But if my family is murdered look after your brother”,
“However, society now enforces remorse”,
“The change has caused methaphorical recourse”,
“While frustration lead to anger which lead to a spacegoat”,
“Misconduct leads to guilt, and then you’re in the same boat”,
“When we suspect one of scapegoating we are quick to denounce them”,
“They are then but our scapegoats, it’s from the same brain stem”,
“We could share our knowledge with racists to aid”,
“Instead we cry “DESCRIMINATION!” an identical blade”,
“In an effort to create a separate identity”,
“The scapegoats do multiply and we lose our serenity”,
“Though you say it is evil, which believe me, is true”,
“By screaming it you are becoming one too”,
The voice it then left, from his head it was gone,
But into a creepy, goat-hairy book it did spawn,
And on each hairy page, of scapegoating it spoke,
How it was used in the literature of every bloke,
The scapegoat he had many roles, many faces,
He purged communities of dissonance in many fine places,
It was a mechanism, symbolic in sort,
That established solidarity in a seemingly functional court,
It brings up the theme of identification,
For the scapegoat’s no stranger but one of the nation,
Who would he be truly if everyone said,
That he was smelly and ugly and better off dead,
Often the scapegoat is representation,
Of the bad parts of those who cause him desperation,
For his attackers he is an immediate cure,
But once his role is discovered, it’s not longer secure,
Later the scapegoat will become a mirror,
For everyone else the truth will be clearer,
The will see how their cruelty affected the plot,
And how Batman’s a hero and they, they are not,
Then the book burst to flames and from them rose a lord,
To fight the great goat beast Girard unsheathed his sword,
“You cannot defeat me!” The great scapegoat did cry,
Said Girard “You can’t even eat me, with your head up so high”,
Girard then knew the answer, and tossed the weapon aside,
It was time to end the violence plaguing humans worldwide,
Girard explained to the goat, that they were now to befriend,
And then Girard ate him, a warm, chewy blend.
…It’s in poem format, so if you don’t quite understand something, just comment and I’ll explain it to you!
Cat’s with watermelon helmets own.
