Jean Raspail foresaw demographic changes in Europe back in 1973 (interview)

[curupira]

The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting where in Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after publication the book returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[1] The title is a reference to the Book of Revelation (Rev 20:9).

The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and its consequences. In Calcutta, India, the Belgian government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in Belgium. The policy is reversed after the Belgian consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children.

An Indian "wise man" then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run-down freighters approaching the French coast.

The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the goods that are in short supply in their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, the rest of the West shares its fate.

Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of the United Kingdom must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

[Fortis in Arduis]

My thoughts exactly. This recent migrant crisis and the response is of the madness found in the plot of that book.

[curupira]

Another interview:

[Grenzland]

Great man and great book.

[curupira]

It is interesting how early he foresaw the dilemma (immigration was quite minor in 1973, unimportant), poor people would start arriving in Europe, attracted by its prosperity, at the same time inspiring compassion and changing the cultural/ethnic profile of Europe. A very complex problem indeed.

[curupira]

Lothrop Stoddard foresaw it even earlier, at the beginning of the XX century, in his book "The Rising Tide of Color", when most people were not thinking of it:

“But with the development of cheap and rapid transportation, nature's barriers are down. Unless man erects and maintains artificial barriers the various races will increasingly mingle” (page 283)

At that time, most people could not think of that, colonialism was at its height. But the technology which was being developed soon would allow cheap and rapid transportation to take place. One just need a few hours to go from one corner of the globe to the other, nowadays. Internet has made distances even shorter. We are communicating here, almost simultaneously, from widely different places. In short, the planet is going to become a single village, unless artificial barriers are erected.

[sean]

To quote Jean Raspail:

"What if they were to come? I did not know who "they" were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country’s wide-gaping frontier."

In the end it all boils down to the dilemma Raspail outlined in Camp of the Saints. If you don't have the guts to gun down crowds of unarmed men, women, and children invading your country, purely on account of their nationality, eventually you won't have a country.