A Catholic Priest Explains the Satanic Forces Hiding In Social Media

Father Steve Grunow explains the dark spiritual force running inside social media — and why René Girard called the scapegoat mechanism "Satan." Jeremy Boreing asks where human nature ends, where the algorithm begins, and why online mobs now need a new victim every single day.

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In this conversation, Jeremy and Father Steve Grunow dig into the challenges unique to new media and digital media that didn't exist 25 years ago: the unrealistic optimism at the start of the internet age, the way human nature shaped the algorithms rather than the other way around, and the spiritual powers Father Grunow believes can manipulate those systems toward demonic ends. They walk through René Girard's account of scapegoating violence — accusation, expulsion, destruction — and why it has found a "brilliant new form" online, where mobs no longer require geography, anonymity removes accountability, fake mobs can be manufactured, and the catharsis of a restored social order can be manufactured daily. Father Grunow's warning: in the social media environment, all of us are in danger of becoming the scapegoat. Dealer's choice.

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