The millions of Third Worlders are a mirror image of that civilizational masochism. It is about our weaknesses, indulgences, and unwillingness to survive. That is obviously deliberate because The Camp of the Saints is about all of us - about white people. The cast of characters is large: media personalities, politicians, academics, priests, soldiers, small businessmen, workers - every typical profession in the modern world.
The novel follows the ship’s long journey, but its focus is on the Europeans waiting for it - waiting for the “due date” of a new world. One day they simply push off from the coast of India. There is no apparent reason for their embarkation: No natural disaster, war, famine, or disease has struck.
Its eerily prophetic premise is that one day, the Third World masses decide to board what ships they can find and head for Europe. The Camp of the Saints, written by Jean Raspail in 1973, is a novel about the end of the white race.
“In this curious war taking shape, those who loved themselves best were the ones who would triumph.” – Jean Raspail Jean Raspail, Camp of the Saints, Social Contract Press, 1973, 306pp., $17.95 (softcover).
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