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The 2011 preface to the prescient novel "The Camp of the Saints" describes how the idea came to author Jean Raspail in 1972. The dystopian fiction was published in 1973. The book describes the destruction of Western civilization as France is overwhelmed with millions upon millions of illegal migrants, no-go zones, insurrectionists and criminals from the Middle East, Africa and India.
Raspail was staying at a Mediterranean villa with an ocean view.
"From the library where I was working, all you saw for 180 degrees was the endless expanse of the Mediterranean Sea, such that one morning, my gaze lost in the distance, I said to myself, “What if they came?” I didn’t know who these they were, but to me, it seemed bound to happen that the inevitable poor from the south, in the manner of a tidal wave, were one day going to set out for this opulent shore, the open border of our blessed lands. That’s how it all got started."
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
