On scapegoating
When you need someone to be wicked
Do you need someone to be wicked?
When we are unwilling to face our own dysfunction, we often find someone else on whom to blob it.
This is, of course, cowardly. And mean. It’s the opposite of taking accountability, the opposite of adult behavior. Scapegoating may look like strength to some — to some it may appear as a brawny campaign to kill the evil witch. In reality, it is a way to avoid ownership, a way to grasp control over others. And it persistently leads to destructive ends.
"Are people born wicked, or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?”
— Glinda, Wicked
