Camp of the Saints author interview
[Hat tip: commenter “Beverly.”]
Here’s a 1994 interview with Camp of the Saints author Jean Raspail. He’s the Frenchman who wrote an extraordinarily prescient and disturbing work of fiction, published in 1973, about a future takeover of the West through immigration from the Third World.
Raspail emerges from the interview as somewhat of an eccentric, but he can certainly give himself a huge pat on the back for foresight on this particular topic:
Our first question is the obvious one Do you think that the vision portrayed in your book is coming true? The answer Haven’t you seen the preface to the third (1985) French edition of the book? No, indeed we hadn’t.
We should read it. This preface explains that the book is symbolic, a parable. History is speeded up to happen over the course of days rather than a couple of decades or a generation. In real life things don’t come about so quickly, but the principle remains the same. The Third World invasion of the West is unavoidable. If we don’t see it, our children will.
The interview was given about twenty years ago. I wondered when I read this whether Raspail is still alive. He is, and would be about 90 now.
Let me repeat that I haven’t read his book and have no idea how I would review it. One thing I can safely say, however, it that its theme certainly seems relevant these days. The details are different, but the basic quandary that he laid out is the same.
The invasion requires sedition of your own
and as i said before, the short term dem gain is not going to avoid the longer term heck they will bring on themselves… there is no way that such a large body of one race that has fostered racism (la raza) unopposed will keep people related to biden, hillary, etc in office… and unlike the prior system, the neuveau one WILL take what those people have for the good of the others.
viva demé³crata vacaros – until the herd runs them over
Not only are we assured it is possible to halt “climate change” but it must be done to preserve the species and insure a future. Not only are we assured it is possible to resuscitate a floundering debt bloated economy by financing it with yet greater credit/debt but it must be done because ‘workers’, ‘jobs’, and consumer ‘confidence’. We have been assured, socially and de jure, for nearly fifty years, that ‘choice’ trumps life and now, that ‘choice’ trumps even reality. But nothing’s to be done, can be done, about illegal third-world immigrants invading western nations and pervading their cultures. In the annals of human organized societies, has there ever been a time that so demanded and so deserved a bloody revolution and public gibbeting as now?
I am as convinced of it more than I have ever been convinced of anything — spit God out and you’ll swallow anything.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Lincoln
Artfldgr is correct. The elitists of the left really believe the alligator will never eat them. Fools every one of them.
parker:
Our intellectuals are twins to the intellectuals in Iran who thought the same thing about the Ayatollah Khomeini in the late 70s. Didn’t work out very well for them, either.
Didn’t work out very well for them, either.
Carter is doing fine isn’t he. And some of those intellectual Leftists in Iran escaped to the US and are living off of the bountiful system now.
Ymarsakar:
I certainly wasn’t referring to Carter, I was referring to Iranians.
I’m sure some of them escaped and are doing just fine. Some did not. And some were quite distressed over what has happened to Iran.
This invasion – from all over the world, but especially from Mexico – was entirely avoidable. The law was not enforced.
That’s what American citizens so resent. It never should have happened. There was no vote to allow 10% of Mexico to move here.
Well neo, I should have included the rino elite, they too believe their positions will remain secure when la raza holds sway.
Mexico is the entry point, but Mexicans are not the major contributers to the border crash of the last two years. Most of this latest assault are illegals/criminals from Central America, Africa, and Asia.
I read the book recently, it’s available on Kindle. It’s extremely well written and quite literary. The speeches and logic of the self-annointed do gooders of the left are eerily prescient and could be used word for word by Obama and his friends. It’s scary how well he understands the mind of the left.
The book is racist; you can read it online here. Some text in a scene describing a meeting of the “People’s Assembly of the Paris Multiracial Commune”:
There was an article on this subject in American Renaissance.
http://www.amren.com/features/2015/07/an-african-planet/
Ann:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” ~ Inigo Montoya
At least not anymore.
Oh, Raspail heaps plenty of withering contempt on his fellow Caucasians, too, don’t you worry.
I suggest that the curious read the book and decide for themselves.
4,000 migrants arrive in Athens, saying “You have to help us.” (BBC)
Greece has no money, and hardly any government.
I bought it mail order when the English translation came out. I must have read about it in National Review, and I remember I ordered it from something called The Institute for Western Values. I remember that because I mailed the order from my parents’ house where I was maybe at Christmas and one of my sisters made fun of that.
But it’s a horrifying book. I remember a guru of some kind (not an actual Sikh Guru) sitting on the deck of a ship and women taking turns masturbating him. I remember the ending. It’s a horrifying book – made a big impression on me. I bet I still have that copy although it might be in a box. Freaked me right the hell out.
And it’s happening right now, in Europe, in Greece, in Hungary, at the Chunnel. How long will Europe resist the pressure? They’ve been rather weak-willed since, what, 1900 or thereabouts.