"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go!"

Western civilization is on the chopping block. The globalists want a world where everything has been tossed in the blender and been homogenized. And it's been going on for decades. Remember the 1987 protest at Stanford when Jesse Jackson led students opposing the required humanities course on Western Civiliazation? "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ has got to go." And it's been going ever since at an accelerated rate, although their attack wasn't the first.

In 1973, Catholic author Jean Raspail wrote a book, Camp of the Saints, that roused the anger of many on the liberal left. They accused him of bigotry for describing a fictional invasion of France by an armada of third worlders arriving in aging ships deliberately grounded on the coast. Tens of thousands looking for a better life swept over the country like a tsunami demanding housing, benefits, acceptance, and the rights of citizens. They were aided and abetted by politicians, do-gooders, and even the Catholic Church. 

Respail wrote the novel at a time when several prominent people were calling for de-colonization. Jean Paul Sartre was one who said the people of former colonies deserved to take over the countries that had once colonized their shores. Was it liberal guilt? Whatever their motivation, what Sartre and others missed was the impact on Western Civilization. 

Raspail saw clearly that taking the decolonization principle to its natural end signaled the end of the West. In 2011 when the book was re-published with a new preface by the author, he considered France lost with the native French population (an already mixed group ethnically, but European), on the way to extinction. And he saw the rest of the continent close behind.

I thought about the book when I saw recent articles about the invasion of the Spanish city of Ceuta by a massive influx of 60,000 Moroccans, mostly men. A Catholic priest, Fr. Angel Garcia, actually called them "saints" ignoring the fact that entering a country illegally is sinful. But the same justification is evident in the novel with many ministers and clergymen going to the border to "welcome the strangers." Several get trampled to death in the melee. 

It's been about a decade since I read the book which I considered prophetic at the time. So I'm re-reading it. We are seeing Raspail's vision in real time as the globalists work to destroy any remnants of individual cultures around the world. We're told diversity is strength, but it seriously undermines a country's cohesion with consequences affecting religion, economics, education, etc. Think about it. A Christian country has a shared value system based on the Judeo-Christian principles. Are those values shared by Islam, Hinduism, and even Satanism? 

Read Raspail's book. He was no bigot; he was a realist who loved his native land, France. Leftist reviewers call the book racist and xenophobic, but it truly is a defense of western culture which is rapidly disappearing. Allan Bloom saw it coming in 1987 when he wrote, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Our poor children are, indeed, being impoverished. When my daughter was at George Mason there was a course on grafiti. 

Think of the recent release of The Odyssey film. The woman playing Helen of Troy, an ivy league graduate majoring in fine arts never heard of Homer and The Odyssey until she got the part. And, as Victor Davis Hanson said, the film may be an entertaining extravaganza but it's not The Odyssey!

Raspail was totally on target when he saw clearly the end of western civilization. The hour is late. May home schoolers become the monasteries of our day preserving western civilization. That's what Fr. John Hardon, S.J. always called them when he addressed home school conferences. Read the classics. Celebrate and remember the past in its glory and in its horrors. The glories offer the hope of repeating them; the horrors are a warning to make sure they never happen again. And I suggest you skip The Odyssey film and read the book.