Desktop Butcher: the Evils Covered by Western Civilization (longitude and Latitude Books)
About This Novel
The ways of killing may have changed, but the desktop butcher is still with us. Over the past century, the brutal massacres, wars, ethnic cleansing, etc. Were ultimately the decisions of a few people sitting in an office. The author of this book spent more than 20 years traveling around the world, reviewing thousands of archival documents and testimonies to write this book. The content includes the murder of local indigenous people in Nigeria by Dutch oil companies, how the Swiss Sula Group provided mobile gas chambers to the Nazis during World War II, the meeting memos and the stories behind the Nazi Wannsee Conference, how the colonists carried out genocide against the indigenous Maori people in Australia, etc. This book gives us an in-depth understanding of the psychological state of these desktop butchers, and is also his personal reflection on capitalism and nationalism. The historical research and analysis in the book are interspersed with the author's walks in the woods reflecting on lost love and the moral dilemmas that humans have continued to face for thousands of years.
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