There is a story we all know. The one we learn in school, consumed as a finished and immutable narrative. This official story, bright and linear, presents itself to us like a perfectly drawn map, reducing the meanders of reality to a simple narrative where good confronts evil, heroes triumph, and traitors fall. But this apparent comfort comes at a price: the price of sacrifice. As René Girard brilliantly exposed, every narrative structure rests on a sacrificial logic. To build a consensual st...