Jacob Medina’s Reviews > The Camp of the Saints > Status Update

“first! And when a man is sure of his cause, he does not die so easily!”

“They know nothing about what you are, about what you represent. Your world means nothing to them.They won't try to understand. They'Il be tired.They'll be cold. They'll build a fire with your
lovely oak door.”

“Every object will lose the meaning you attach to it. What's beautiful won't be beautiful anymore. What's useful will become laughable. And what's useless will become absurd.”

“Man has never loved mankind as a whole - all its races, religions, cultures - but only those he recognized as his own, those of his clan, however large it might be. As for the rest, he forces his love, and it is forced from him, and when the evil is done, all that remains is for him to disin-tegrate. In the strange war that was coming, victory would go to those who loved themselves most.”

“Faced with this vanguard of an antiworld that had finally resolved to come in person and knock at the gates of abundance, he merely felt interest, intense interest.” Author describes darkness in a very fitting way. It’s to symbolize the darkness of the unknown masses.

“All the same, let us not despair.”

“THE PRESENT CONTAINS THE FUTURE.
It heralds it. Where do we stand?”

As a Christian, I still believe you cannot put race above God. Meaning, that we still have hope in the Resurrection, and in the goodness of all people.

“FROM THESE RESPONSES AND OTHERS, it appears that all these people - people who participate in governing the country and shaping opinion or did so in the past (on both left and right, I must insist) - practice a double language: a public and proclaimed language, and a personal, concealed one. It is as if their conscience is double…”

All unfolds in twenty-four hours, whereas in reality it is a continuous submersion, & over many years, the full measure of which, in all its catastrophe, we will only realize at the turning point of 2045-2050, when the final demographic shift has begun: in France and among close neighbors, 50 percent of inhabitants under 55 will be of non-European origin in the areas in which two-thirds of the population lives.”

“"Raspail is not writing about race, he is writing about civilization…."