Publish at April 28 2026 Updated April 28 2026
Behind the rhetoric of benevolence, some institutions sacrifice their best people to preserve a certain internal comfort. Girard, Freyd and Dejours shed light on this mechanism: the scapegoat is chosen, the slander validated, the competence denied. The real institutional manipulator is not the one who lies, but the one who chooses to believe it.
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