Where To Run To?

While some Kosovo Serbs are regarding Russia as the new El Dorado, and many Flemish are more than willing to split from Belgium to re-join The Netherlands, there are conservatives in America who are pondering the necessity of secession, with its dangers and its inevitable logistical complexities. The topic of secession has been discussed before at Lawrence Auster's VFR, and that article was then discussed at The Brussels Journal by Norwegian blogger Fjordman.

In France, Jean Raspail famously described the subsistence of "isolates", surviving cells of the old culture:

All the same let us not despair. Without doubt, there will remain what is called in ethnology some isolates, powerful minorities, perhaps about 15 million French - and not necessarily all of the white race - who will still speak our language more or less unbroken and will insist on remaining impregnated with our culture and our history such as was transmitted to us from generation to generation. It will not be easy for them.

Now, Thomas Bertonneau has revived the discussion in a new, beautifully written piece posted at VFR. Those who feel that the values of the West are doomed unless we can separate ourselves from the liberal-Socialist-Islamic complex, may find much food for thought in these articles. Included in the idea of secession are the possibilities of Balkanization, "inner emigration", and a gradual reconquest of the country over a long period of time. This reconquest would be possible simply because Good must triumph over Evil in the end.

One of my readers sent this succinct comment on a similar theme:

The vision has been to kill off European nations into a common sovereign block.

Honestly, modern European nations have lost any modicum of respect for their old cultures and traditions, regional identities are breaking up old nations, Muslims and Africans are everywhere.

I think we have more important things to fight for than pre-1914 nationalism. It's dead, and it was never very old. Let us fight for European Christian culture and let nations die.

In other words, keep Christianity alive as much as possible, even if it has to be done clandestinely. With time, it will grow. Let the nations die because, for all intents and purposes, they are already dead.

Below a wood cut with a quote from Zephaniah, 2:14, predicting the end of the great city of Nineveh. The quote continues in 2:15 (KJV):

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.