hominization, n.Definitions

Hominization (n.) begins ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at a threshold of mimetic power beyond which animal societies become impossible — the threshold where the victimage mechanism appears.

Hominization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made of factors each of which could have destroyed the species — stones, hunting, war, helpless infants — and some "mysterious alchemy" turned each into a resource.

Hominization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a spiral: each crisis triggers a founding murder and tighter taboos, each new institution allows a higher pitch of mimesis, which brings the next crisis.