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"You cannot be a human without a transcendental vision. The here and now is not enough; there must be something wholly above it, not just something higher and better, but something absolute and eternal. This something is transcendence. It anchors human life in meaning and purpose."

René Girard showed how Western literature over the centuries traces a descent of transcendence from heavenly and distant visions down closer to earth, where our idols become other people and we become miserable. No one can escape having a transcendental they worship, they can only choose to deny it. 

In this episode I trace this historical arch of the descent of idols, and how discuss how modern culture's earthly idols lead to misery and destruction.

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