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. . . or the phenomenon of The Beatles in the movie Let It Be. Most human beings who are going through a bad time anyway will latch on some other human who must be causing it. And if one scapegoater is persuasive enough to another persuasive scapegoater, it's going to catch fire. Soon you have George Harrison going home, or Piggy being staked to death and having his head displayed on a pike, or one person taking in all the frustration expressed by the group. What you're seeing in BB this week is genocide in its infancy.
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You hit on the Lord of the Flies phenomenon or the social pariah phenomenon