Convergence of Catastrophes

222 Pages·2012·1.16 MB·English

by  Guillaume Faye

Convergence of Catastrophes
Guillaume Faye
C
ONVERGENCE
OF
C
ATASTROPHES

Translated by E. Christian Kopff
ARKTOS
L 2012
ONDON
Original edition, La Convergence des catastrophes,
published in 2004 by Diffusion International Edition, Paris.
First English edition published in 2012 by Arktos Media Ltd.
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BIC classification: Social forecasting, future studies (JFFR) Social & political

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Nationalism (JPFN)
Translation: E. Christian Kopff
Editor: Matthew Peters
Co-Editor: John B. Morgan
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T C
ABLE OF ONTENTS
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION: AN EXPLOSIVE COCKTAIL
Believing in Miracles
Man, a Sick Animal
The Golem Parable, or the Machine that Went Mad
The ‘Billiard Ball’ Theory
‘Catastrophe Theory’ and ‘Discrete Structural Metamorphoses’
We Must Stop Believing in Sorcerers: Techno-science Gone Mad
1. TOWARD THE COLLAPSE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM
It is Already Too Late
How Times Have Changed!
Countdown to the Climate Bomb
Confronted by Global Warming, the Utopias of the Ecologists
Violent Climate Change is Going to Provoke Geopolitical Earthquakes
The Spectre of Shortages
Examples of Ecological Disasters
And Let’s Not Forget Epidemics
2. TOWARD THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS
The Globalisation of War
Toward the Most Bellicose Century in History
Terror as Art of Living
Is It a Question of War between Islam and the West?
China against the USA
When Everyone Has Nuclear Weapons
Israel’s Tears
Two Examples to Make Us Think
The Return of the Titans
3. TOWARD CHAOS IN EUROPE
In the Eye of the Cyclone
The Horrible Spectre of Ethnic Civil War
Economy: Tomorrow, the Great European Depression
The Demographic Coma
The Cancer of Decadence
The European Union: The Shattered Dream
4. TOWARD A GIANT ECONOMIC CRISIS
The End of the Paradigm of ‘Economic Development’
The Impending Death of World Economic Development
Toward a ‘Civilisational Break-up’
There is No Reason to Believe that Traditional Economies are
‘Underdeveloped’
Is the Techno-scientific Economy Viable?
The Neo-global Economy of the Post-Catastrophe Age
A Non-egalitarian Economy
Techno-science as Esoteric Alchemy
When the Worst is Probable
The End of ‘Growth’
Economism is Condemned
The Fraud of the ‘New Economy’
The Dangerous Fragility of Globalised Liberal Capitalism
Some Small but Worrying Signals
The Spectre of Poverty
Cancelling the Debts of Poor Countries is a Farce
CONCLUSION: A NEW MIDDLE AGES
Chaos and Post-Chaos
Humanity, the ‘Adjustment Variable’
The Drunken Boat
Catastrophe Scenarios
1. The ‘Soft’ Scenario
2. The ‘Hard’ Scenario
3. The ‘Very Hard’ Scenario
The End of Contemporary Humanity, Predicted by Tradition
Out of Chaos into the Light
A N E
OTE FROM THE DITOR
There were no footnotes to the original French edition of this book. Therefore,
all footnotes to Faye’s text are my own. Wherever possible, references have been
given to the English translations of texts; if a reference is to a work in another
language, I was unable to locate an English version of it. All references to Web
sites in the footnotes were verified as accurate and available during May 2012.
This translation was made directly from the original French edition published
in 2004 by Diffusion International Edition. This edition was printed under the
name Guillaume Corvus at the request of the publisher.
I would like to thank Professor E. Christian Kopff for the translation, as well
as Jared Taylor for providing an excellent Foreword at short notice, and to
Sergio Knipe, who translated the back cover text from the French edition. I also
wish to express my gratitude to Matthew Peters, who did the bulk of the editing
and proofreading for this volume, including painstakingly comparing the
translation against the original French.
JOHN B. MORGAN IV
Bangalore, India, May 2012
F by Jared Taylor
OREWORD
I first met Guillaume Faye in Paris in 2003. On previous visits, I had met a few
figures from the French Right, such as Alain de Benoist, Charles Champetier,
Bruno Mégret, Bruno Gollnisch. Pierre Vial, and Jean-Yves Le Gallou. All were
brilliant and charming men, fully engaged in the struggle to defend their nation
and its culture.
But of all these remarkable Frenchmen, it was Guillaume Faye with whom I
fell into the quickest intimacy. The two of us — a French dissident and an
American dissident — discovered that we had been driven out of respectable
discourse for the same reasons and by the same forces. I hasten to point out that
Mr. Faye is a dissident of a much broader sweep than I. As readers of this book
will find, nothing is safe from Guillaume Faye: politics, culture, sex, foreign
policy, economics, or religion. But when it came to an understanding of race, of
the biological foundations of European civilisation, we were immediately old
comrades.
Since that time, we have met on both sides of the Atlantic, and Mr. Faye has
been a speaker at two conferences I have organised. In 2006, he spoke on ‘The
Threat to the West’, and in 2012 his subject was ‘America and Europe, Brothers-
in-Arms: A French Point of View’.
I like to think that those trips have given Mr. Faye a more comprehensive
view of the United States. As one of the founders of the French New Right, he
shared that group’s deep suspicion of Americans, and in his 2001 book Why We
Fight he wrote at considerable length about ‘the American adversary’.
I certainly do not support most of what the United States government does,
but I believe Mr. Faye was mistaken when he wrote, for example, that
Americans have tried to form alliances with Islam deliberately to weaken
Europe. The multiculturalism and mass immigration that the United States
promotes for all White countries certainly weakens them, but the American
governments do not push these things only on others. They practice them
relentlessly on their own people. The United States therefore does not weaken
Europe deliberately. It weakens it, as it weakens itself, perversely and tragically.
Anyone with a vision of the West must look beyond governments to the
people they misgovern, and what Mr. Faye and I discovered at that meeting in
2003 was, indeed, what became the theme of his 2012 talk: that the people of
America and Europe are brothers-in-arms. I am not certain he knew it when he
wrote Why We Fight, but Mr. Faye certainly knows it now: the struggle to save
Europe is the struggle to save America. It is the struggle to save all the children
of Europe, whether they live in Canada, Australia, South Africa, or anywhere
else. When Mr. Faye warns of catastrophe for Europe and writes of his hopes for
redemption, he warns and hopes for all of us.
For virtually any other member of the French New Right, it would be heresy
to talk of Americans and Europeans as brothers-in-arms. Such language came
naturally for Mr. Faye in his recent talk, because he spoke of the American and
European peoples rather than their rulers. As he pointed out, the people are the
roots from which culture, civilisation, and everything else grows, and if the
European peoples — wherever they live — are replaced by others, all is lost.
Of course, in this book Mr. Faye warns that catastrophe looms no matter what
we do: ‘It is impossible to stop the headlong race of contemporary planetary
civilisation to the abyss, because there exists no power with the decisive will to
do so. How to change the direction of six billion people?’
And he warns that it is the people of the West who are the worst prepared:
‘[W]e have never been less prepared: invaded, devirilised, physically and
morally disarmed, the prey of a culture of meaninglessness and masochistic
culpability. Europeans have never in their history been as weak as at this very
moment when the Great Threat appears on the horizon.’
The goal of this book is not so much to avert catastrophe, much as I might
hope it could, as to prepare for the new age that will dawn after the catastrophe.
For some, Mr. Faye is nothing more than a prophet of doom, but in my view,
for at least the last ten years, he has been Europe’s foremost spokesman for our
people. Thanks to the translations by Arktos, his books are now available to the
English-speaking world.
I particularly welcome this translation by E. Christian Kopff, whom I have
known for nearly twenty years, and for whom I have the highest admiration. He
has fully captured the slashing, uncompromising style that makes Mr. Faye so
provocative and so memorable. I cannot think of a better match of author,
publisher, and translator to bring these important ideas to new readers, and I
envy them the pleasure of their first encounters with the work of Guillaume
Faye.
Jared Taylor
Oakton, Virginia, 3 May 2012
Jared Taylor has been the editor of the journal American Renaissance since
1990, and founded the New Century Foundation in 1994, both of which have
been among the most prominent institutions to analyse the problems being faced
by those of European descent worldwide. He is also the author of Paved with
Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (New
York: Carroll & Graf, 1992); The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration,
and the Future of America (Oakton, Virginia: New Century Foundation, 1998);
and White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the Twenty-first Century (Oakton,
Virginia: New Century Foundation, 2011).
I : A E C
NTRODUCTION N XPLOSIVE OCKTAIL
‘The modern world is like a train full of ammunition running in the fog on a
moonless night with its lights out.’
— Robert Ardrey[1]
For the first time in its history, humanity is threatened by a convergence of
catastrophes.
A series of ‘dramatic lines’ are approaching one another and converging like a
river’s tributaries with perfect accord (between 2010 and 2020) towards a
breaking point and a descent into chaos. From this chaos — which will be
extremely painful on the global scale — can emerge the new order of the post-
catastrophe era and therefore a new civilisation born in pain.
Let us briefly summarise the nature of these lines of catastrophe.
The first is the cancerisation of the European social fabric. The colonisation
of the Northern hemisphere for purposes of permanent settlement by the peoples
of the global South[2], which is increasingly serious despite the reassuring
affirmations of the media, is pregnant with explosive situations: the failure of the
multiracial society, increasingly full of racism of all kinds with different
communities becoming more and more tribal; the progressive ethnic and
anthropological metamorphosis of Europe, a true historical cataclysm; the return
of poverty to Western and Eastern Europe; the slow but steady growth of
criminal activity and drug use; the continual disintegration of family structures;
the decline of educational infrastructure and the quality of academic programs;
the disruption of the transmission of cultural knowledge and social disciplines
(barbarisation and loss of needed skills); the disappearance of popular culture
and the increasing degrading of the masses by the culture of spectacles.[3] All
this indicates to us that the European nations are moving toward a New Middle
Ages.[4]
But these factors of social breakdown in Europe will be aggravated by the
economic and demographic crisis which will only get worse and end by
producing mass poverty. By 2010 the number of active workers will not be large
enough to finance the retirements of the ‘grandpa boomers’. Europe will collapse