Posted on 08/07/2021 8:37:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Camp of the Saints is no longer fiction. The Biden administration has made it reality along the U.S.-Mexico border. Right before our eyes, the government of the United States is deciding that, in fact, the United States doesn’t really exist at all.
In Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel, a vast horde of starving Indians commandeers a flotilla of decrepit ships in the harbor of Calcutta. The flotilla sets sail for Europe, and slowly creeps around the Cape of Good Hope, past Sao Tome, through the Strait of Gibraltar, and finally descends upon southern France. As the fleet approaches, French society is first convulsed first by political infighting, then by panic, and finally by collapse.
Six months ago, Revolver listed Camp as one of eight books to read while you still can. We wrote then:
The thesis of The Camp of the Saints is simple: That the very traits that made the West so successful and so widely-imitated would eventually be its undoing. The West’s openness and egalitarianism led to widespread prosperity. But those same moral sensibilities, Raspail argues, mean that while the West could easily vanquish a normal military threat, it will be politically unable to justify its own success. If the impoverished, backwards masses of the Third World demand the wealth of the West, the West will submit even if it ultimately means the loss of its prosperity, its independence, its culture, its very existence. Nearly a half-century later, with Western elites eagerly waving in caravans from Central America and literal boatloads from Africa, Raspail’s foresight looks remarkable.
Six months ago, Raspail was prescient. Today, his vision is so accurate one wonders if he was a time traveler.
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This is what BOTH parties cheated Trump out to get.
He had interrupted the largest bipartisan project ofnthe last 30 years, the fundamental transformation of the USA into North Mexico.
It is completely bipartisan.
Same as the Big Steal.
Same as the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
I remember hearing of this book back in 1973. Also the critical outfall from it.
Now it is happening.
The ending of the novel is very profound. The radio stations before being silenced are broadcasting Mozart’s Requiem, both as the end of days, but as the highest expression of Western Civilization now to disappear forever. The monks of a local Abby near the landing point bravely hold up a crucifix and bravely chant the ancient prayers as they are simply trampled by the indifferent invading hoards.
Thanks so much, I have been wanting to read this book.
I just read the first few pages. It is frightening and actually happening all around us. Anxious to read it all. Thanks again!
What I found interesting was that you could put a current media/politician’s name in place of just about every character in the book.
You can do the same thing with Atlas Shrugged.
Written almost 50 years ago and reads like today. I am lucky enough to have a paper back of it.
Read this years ago.
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