A Macabre View
In past nine months many conservatives have dusted off their copies of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Struggled in a desperate hope for an understanding their country slide into collectivism. I am surprised Animal Farm and 1984 are not mentioned for re-reading.
I have another novel in order to see clearer the fall. Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints. If you replace the event for destroying the first world with today’s crises headlines since last Summer, then you get a better, though sad, picture of the years of self-destruction by the western world.
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“The world is controlled…not by a single specific conductor, but by a new apocalylptic beast, a kind of anonymous, omnipresent monster…vowed to destroy the Western World. The beast has no set plan. It seizes whatever occasions arise.” (Ibid p. 38, Raspail)
The story had the crowd massing along the Ganges; these past months the crowd amassed along wall streets. This 1973 story explains how the “freedom [was] expand[ed] to mean freedom of instinct and social destruction” (Ibid p. 69 Raspail) so that in the end freedom was meaningless and dead.
