Author of one of the most creative works of the 20th century, and one of the most influential - in an underground way, of course. He “went where angels fear to tread”.
I have read it and found it to be a view into a future I do not want to see, yet I can see it getting closer every day. The wife is trying to read it; she can only read a few pages before she is infuriated at the described behavior. “Just like today” she says every time.
Reading “Camp of the Saints” put an exclamation point on my vote for DJT. Calling Raspail racist because he wanted to protect his culture is the same as accusing someone of being racist for saying “all lives matter!” Purely ridiculous. BTW, I saw a clip of the French riot police getting pummeled in Lyon. So pathetic but I’m afraid it’s coming here soon.
In one of the most dramatic events, close to the book’s end, the leader of the French radicals is portrayed as rushing forward to welcome the “surging mob” of Indians, only to find himself “swept up in turn, carried off by the horde. ...... All around him, the press of sweaty, clammy bodies, elbows nudging madly in a frantic push forward, every man for himself, in a scramble to reach the streams of milk and honey.” ......The message is clear: race, not class or ideology, determines everything, and the wretched of the earth will see no distinction between unfriendly, fascistic Frenchmen on the one hand and liberal-minded bishops and yuppies on the other. All have enjoyed too large a share of the world’s wealth for too long, and their common fate is now at hand.