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Genocidal Legacy: On The Doctrine Of Self-righteousness

by Jean Ovide Bourdeau

619 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2886; ISBN 1-4120-5078-2; US$37.39, C$43.00, EUR30.71, £21.50

An ethical standard for people whose rights are trampled upon due to programs of terror meant specifically for them as groups... begging us to remove ourselves from that conundrum.

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About the Book

This is a continuation and completion of the work begun in the seminal essay "Ethics of One". This second work contemplates our tendency to be genocidal and warmongers - legating this attitude from one generation to another. Appoint made many times through the citing of the ad hoc examples from the past and present. An approach, which highlights - as it unfolds - our extraordinary fear of women in the course of history along with everything. Demanding a change in our attitude toward woman, and anything else we do not understand. As a whole this works focuses on what Jean Ovide Bourdeau claims are artificially inculcated specie-specific physiological dysfunctions. A reality that makes it normal to attempt to be as mean to each other as possible, and which ultimately culminates in our unkind and insane tendency to cause terror and horrendous injustice. The work highlights most unequivocally, that our contemporary thinking and behavior tends to promote and adopt a philosophy in which, both, malevolence and insanity govern our behavior, with callousness and cowardice as their servants slavishly carrying out acts of horrid violence in support of self-righteous a priori assertions. It is precisely from this point of view that this work emphasizes what appears without a doubt to be our compulsive behavior for violence, in spite of the fact that it is easy and natural to be sane and kind (i.e., to be ourselves). This implies that, we have to really work hard against our natural tendency for cooperation; be the self we are meant to be; and live in bliss. That is why; we insanely and unkindly insist in remaining in the violent and monarchic patriarchal paradigm in which we now find ourselves. The unusual structure of this essay - made of shorter thoughts and yet still very much focusing on the multi generational legacy of violence - is made all the more evident through the bluntness of the ideas expressed. These emerge as more or less irreverent and random flashes of awareness, often hovering between poles of rationality and intuition. Nonetheless, they reflect a respect for the bravery required when, we insist on living sanely and in kindness in a world seemingly bent otherwise. Above all, this essay confronts the obvious intellectual syndrome of terror resulting from our attitude toward change: evident in the Ethical Disease of Self-righteousness, and demonstrated callousness and cowardice, as a way of viewing the issue at hand, and perhaps finding a way out of our lethal predicament. As a whole, it questions the reason used by so many of us ethically empowering ourselves to behave like violent narcissistic predators - as if it was most natural. These rather brief comments, laid out occasionally is complete poetic forms, are also meant to wake us out of the legacy nourishing this age of Self-righteousness mow growing like fungus all around us; as it manifestation takes shape in a whole amalgam of acts of terrorism - both at the private level within families or internationally at he planetary level. In the thoughts found here, we discover loose ends to unravel, patterns to identify, similarities to observe, historical events never to be forgotten, and so on... and whatever our opinions, each provoking thought shakes us out of our conformist attitude. Yes! The message here is simple. We must wake up, and get out of the slumber into which, we have lodges ourselves in the course of history.

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About the Author

Author of a previous work titled Ethics of One (published in 2003), Montreal born writer Jean Ovide Bourdeau (also an artist in his own right) now lives in a small village on the Quebec-Ontario provincial border in Canada.

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