Ep. 4 Warrior Priests and Existentialists - The Forging of the Acadian Self-Privileging Infrastructure

Late Night Canadian Political Philosophy With Scorpio McGoose

We continue our tour of the institutions of French super-representation and super-funding in Moncton with La Place de la Cathédrale - the Acadian nationalist office building in the basement of the Monument de la Reconnaissance - the church with a neo-feudal design funded by the Acadians in homage to their rights as a people, a good occasion to discuss the ethnic entrepreneur French priests like Clement Cormier - De Gaulle has always been a hero to the Acadians because of his support for their cause - a great example of how the English of Canada became post-colonialist but the French did not. Another influence on Acadian rights maximalism - existentialism, the idea of self-definitional struggle -- the other side of Albert Camus's thinking, that we should strive for a culture that doesn't scape goat or sacrifice others as summarized in his slogan "Ni Victimes, Ni Bourreaux" - Neither Victims nor Butchers - that side of things was never engaged with by French activists in the New World for whom English were made into scapegoats - "les exploiters anglais" - "les vielles anglaises de l'autre bord de la rue" nationalism directed against the English has always been very scolding and scapegoating.