TABOOS and TOTEMS: Social Biases to Be Challenged

by Jean Ovide Bourdeau

As distasteful as it is, as if raising the black flag of anarchy, I suspect at times ∙Ingrained biases and prejudices while consisting of infuriating provocations and misplaced affirmations if not plain meanness and intellectual violence, do at times also carry at times a kernel if not a small exasperating element of truth within the so-called logic of the overall self-righteousness it contains. ∙Private or group shared illusions are often emotional myths that merely exist as totems of delusions.The subjects addressed here underscores these notions. This, therefore, is a hazardous attempt to help us crawl out of our ethical torpor, trying dangerous intellectual avenues and risky assumptions. The objective is simply to try to make sense of a few socially and psychologically highly emotional if not banned subjects. Doing so by blowing away the nefarious fog of reprisal whenever an excommunication of sort is delivered upon those daring to blaspheme untouchable issues and subjects—and consequently be considered politically incorrect at least if not simply immoral whenever lifting the veil over social taboos and mythological totems.That is We must always think “outside-the-box”, however long that may take, and however agonizing that may be. It is the price we pay in order to gain and retain our freedom, because if we do not, then our freedom simply evaporates, and totalitarianism takes over again.

234 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2017