re: #713 FemNaziBitch

No, I remember at least one short story in which a village actively keeps a “object” of hate (usually a person they can abuse). Their “religion” or whatever demands it. As long as they do this, they prosper. …

It seems a meme tho, I had a boss that I always thought kept herself as the object of hate as a tactic to unite the employees. The business worked very well under that system.

If I observe a repeated meme, someone else has probably already studied it to death.

:)

Hmmm short story, could you be talking about Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”