Jean Ovide Bourdeau

Audacious Thoughts Jean Ovide Bourdeau

As we begin this 21st century CE, we ought to have a total respect about all our 'Inalienable Individual Rights' as the foundational platform upon which a kind and sane life must rest. Our unique and privileged opportunity remains in the intellectual homework we each must entertain in this short life of ours, and this demands we think and act beyond the limits imposed on us all by the society that bore us and the 'Communities of Interests and Benefits' which sustain it and us as part of it. Indeed, we must insist on a pursuit of happiness, sanity, and kindness in the course of our short existence by enjoying an ethical life. We must accomplish this in spite of our compulsive fear and dread about all the ambiguities of life and the nothingness that awaits us at the end of it. To that end and with much premeditation we must somehow rewire our attitude, survive as sane self-aware entities, and capitalize on the short and only life given us as ethical beings. Regardless of themes and in spite of the extemporaneousness of those separate thoughts along with at times an apparent disconnectedness, or singularity here and there, or because of the obvious kinship of many, these mostly ad-lib, on-the-spot, improvised, unrehearsed, unplanned, off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment, and on-the-top-of-my-head thoughts written down over the years, as a whole suggests at least when not demanding outright our full participation in the reorientation of our societies toward a sane, ethical, and self-actualizing future, wherein the motto must be: Do no harm, capitalize on opportunities offered by life, and seek your self-actualization in an aura of joy and serenity in the course of that short life so mysteriously awarded to each of us for reasons still unknown to us all. Yet, human history (e.g., not the one cherished and marketed by your 'Community of Interests and Benefits' which is generally the culture you we're born and raised within) has instead been one of exhibited mental cruelty, social insecurity, extreme sovereignty, and normalized lethal exhibitions of 'self-righteous' acts and events of domination of both our intellectual and social worlds. That is why: Ethics must reign supreme at all times and under all conditions