Ethics of One

About the Book

The author of this irreverent seminal work proposes that a self-righteous attitude of intolerance backed up by force has caused us as a species to plan and construct a Final Planetary Holocaust. He points to compulsive objectives by a group of dedicated people, which he refers to as 'Barbarians' gathered on purpose, to accomplish a self-assigned mission for the annihilation of the human phenomenon. This is serious stuff and obviously no bedtime reading for sure.

He submits that this planetary genocidal project is not only in progress but has now begun to accelerate toward its overall goal-insisting further that, we inexplicably continue to deny the existence of this scenario of malfeasance altogether despite the spectacle of horror, fright, cowardice, callousness, and violence, there for us all to witness.

A situation, he insists, is generally denied particularly by those of us, who as members of the Western Tradition are for the moment exceptionally located in that quieter area of the eye of the storm, so to speak. A spectacle nonetheless made blindingly obvious and which consists of famines, nuclear arsenals, environmental collapse, territorial and food wars, destruction of marginal nations, devastation of the ozone layer, unprovoked crimes, morbid existence, poverty, rapacious consumption of natural resources for unethical profit, genocides, tribal warfare, etc.

As if to make matters worst, he states that, all of this is carried out with our approval, simply because most of us refuse to be responsible and accountable for setting our personalized meanings, values and standards of thought and behavior in a cooperative pursuit of our bliss while respecting everyone's Inalienable Individual Rights at all times and regardless of circumstances.

Yet, he offers a scenario for hope based on sane and kind behavior, while accomplishing this in the pursuit of our individualized bliss.

The approach in this work resembles that of putting a puzzle without all of the parts-yet possessing a sufficient number of these in order to present a reasonable image of the message conveyed-in a sort of McLuhanesque manner. This helter-skelter style is tied together with several key words and concepts such as The Republic of the Barbarians, The Commonwealth of the Ings, The Ing Point, HID Syndrome, Article of Violence, Axioms of Dichotomies, etc.

A truly fresh and different way of observing our social, historical and political realities.

About the Author

Jean Ovide Bourdeau is a self-described average Canadian, who, close to retirement from what he calls an enjoyable but most ordinary career in human resources, decided to try to understand an issue that had bothered him all of his life: gratuitous and self-righteous violence. More specifically he wished to comprehend the rationalization of that violence in the mind of perpetrators, beginning with the routine kind heaped on battered women and exploited children nearly everywhere on earth-among others.

This eventually led him to identify what he now calls an historical legacy of terror and malfeasance that makes it normal to commit genocide and go to war. During this process he noted that human history, major belief systems, cultural taboos and mores, etc. were imbued with an arrogant and compulsive self-righteousness that transformed itself into cowardly and callous acts; based on a form of immutable Immaculate Perception. That this process seems to be supported by both the State and its main agent in support of its principal belief system-regardless of where you look in the course of recorded human history. A reality promoting an unquestionable Absolute Obedience to State and Church (and/or Academia in more advanced political groups) as the highest good-elevating this notion as a social and psychological sacrament of behavior.

Above all, this essay is an attempt to make some sense of a world seemingly bent on its self-destruction, while in the midst of so many opportunities there for the taking; that could otherwise help us pursue our happiness and live our bliss.

Born in Montréal, the author now lives in a small village on the Québec-Ontario provincial border in Canada.