An End or a Beginning?

When an earth-shattering event takes place, we are always disoriented for a while. Some feel it is the end of something good and the start of something bad, others feel the opposite, and still others feel you have to draw some wisdom from whatever happens. The election of Barack Obama is such an event, even though the reaction to the event is infinitely more convulsive than the event itself. Obama himself remains an unknown figure, and speculation about him is so wildly partisan that he himself may actually turn out to be more moderate than either his detractors or his sycophantic adulators in their frenzied state are capable of conceiving.

Re-examining the previous post I decided to expand it because the pessimism of the author prompted me to look more closely at what he and Lawrence Auster were actually saying. Though they are in agreement that an attempt will be made to submerge whites into a racially mixed society, they reach two different conclusions. While Auster thinks the West is in a great crisis, he insists we are not finished and have the ability to fight back. Pince is much more negative and seems to think the extinction of the West is irreversible.

This is a frequent topic of debate at French websites and message boards: is it over, or are there grounds for hope? The demise of so many websites, as a result of disillusionment and discouragement, may indicate that many Frenchmen have in fact given up. I do not want to give the impression that I agree completely with this attitude, but I understand it, because we all have defeatist moments. But we can bounce back, as I think many American conservatives are doing.

As for the French, one reason for their discouragement is that they see no way of correcting their system. Elections mean nothing. The media are an extension of the government, and they see themselves surrounded by a KGB-style environment where the State is all-powerful and the people want bread and circus in exchange for their tax money. Here, we still have the belief (is it an illusion?) that we can keep changing, adjusting to new situations, and renewing ourselves. The French do not seem to be an optimistic people, and one cannot blame them. But there must be a way out for them.

The two points of view, one combative, the other despairing, are well illustrated in the readers' comments to Gérard Pince's post. I have chosen these five:

#3 signed "star wolf":

- Unfortunately, and despite the fact that my view is more nuanced than yours, Monsieur Pince, I must admit that you are, to a great extent, right... everybody is already talking about the need to elect Obamas everywhere in the West, in the name of diversity, affirmative action, etc...

We are already second class citizens in several areas, be it in housing, social assistance, more and more in hiring practices (certain managers acknowledge that it is easier for someone with a foreign name to get hired than for a Frenchman). Jean Raspail's scenario actually seems to be materializing, and everyone, out of deference, is happy about it.

Let us not fall into the trap, however. The countries of Eastern Europe are less inclined to allow their populations to be replaced than in the West, where people's minds are stuffed with (guilt over) Nazism, slavery, colonization and other similar evils. Furthermore, even in France, people are beginning to feel that they have had enough of this brain-washing. By dint of crying "racism" and imposing quotas on everyone everywhere, they end up arousing resentment.

#4 signed "anonyme":

- You are a pessimist. I will not surrender! We are going to suffer and endure this "soft" fascism for a few years, but since 1914 we have known this type of collapse many times.

I will fight for my children, without hatred, but so that we may be free.

#7 signed "denis":

- Obama's days are numbered. He is elected for 4 years.

And in 4 years they will refer to him as a hope dashed.

Our days are numbered... It is certain that if, in France, the nationalist Right continues to play the game of every man for himself, we are not going to get anywhere. On the contrary, if at long last, the ensemble of the nationalist Right, begins to understand that we must remain united before our enemy, we might have a chance.

To say that our days are numbered, is nothing more than defeatism, a retreat and a desertion when confronted with a tough situation. No, Monsieur, beginning now, we must not say "every man for himself", but we must ceaselessly call upon a coalition, a union, of the whole nationalist Right. Your type of thinking frightens the voters, lowers morale and does not help to mobilize people.

If you want to give up, go ahead... but don't contaminate, through these defeatist comments, the forces of the nationalist Right. These forces, these troops, must be allowed to hear a completely different story.

NO, Monsieur Gérard Pince, our days are not numbered...

#8 signed "anonyme"

- All you had to do was listen to the French radio stations. Each one intoned its lament: When will France have her own black president??!! This zero level of questioning, this juvenile knee-jerk reaction to the event, reveals first of all the unanimity and the incompetence of our media. But they are the ones responsible for maintaining the population in a state of psychological submission and intellectual poverty that has no cause to envy brutal totalitarian regimes.

I do not however completely subscribe to your severity towards the American "system": it brought to power a man who "does not have only his distinctive trait to offer", but who IS and FEELS profoundly, authentically, American. That is why his victory cannot reasonably offend anyone except segregationist voters.

It's EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE in our wretched country: soon, in order to pay the henchmen's wages, we will have to elect a "non-Frenchman" ONLY BECAUSE he is not French. It is this type of thinking that offends the nationalists horrified that one "less French than they" could be the object of so much indulgence, and sickened not only that our children are not inculcated with the sacred patriotism we see in the U.S., but that are country is debased as well.

As for the great mixing-together ("métissage") of Humanity, it is quite vain to cling to our appearance! The U.S. melting pot foreshadowed what would become of our species: the bridges between continents will, in the course of generations, homogenize the human species.

How will a human being look in 10 generations?? And will it follow that the great nations all meld into one?

I'm sorry to say that I will never know.

But I am convinced that our country will not, in any significant way, follow the path - which all in all has been ontologically quite fortunate - that made America what it is.

#9 signed "psychopathe":

- This will all end in massacres without any sure winners. The Great He-Goat is demanding his share of blood. Everything is done to see to it that he gets it: could this be the real meaning of History?

In addition you can review Lawrence Auster's article which has been GREATLY expanded by readers' comments. While you're there read anything at his very productive site.

The painting by Goya is of the Great He-Goat referred to in the comment above. The painting is also called the Witches Sabbath. It shows terrified humanity facing the He-Goat cloaked in black and presumably representing the Devil.

Please do not think that this is my point of view - it is not. It's a great painting and it coincides with one point of view that has merit, if not total merit. However we must consider all eventualities, even the worst.