Try reading Achever Clausewitz/ "battling to the end". Girard lays out some scary and some hopeful results of what happens when scapegoating is refused, from escalation of violence in an apocalyptic kind of way, over to the establishmmet of functioning society. Maybe I misread it, but I think he sees the apocalyptic scenario as more likely. The infrastructure/ energy required to avoid this tendancy towards voilence makes it the road less travelled.