Convergence of Catastrophes

Convergence of Catastrophes
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Author(s)	Guillaume Faye (Author), Jared Taylor (Foreword)
Language	English
Publisher	Arktos
Publication year	2012
Pages	220
ISBN	1907166467

Convergence of Catastrophes is a book by Guillaume Faye, published in English in 2012 by Arktos.

Publisher description

"The thesis of this book is a terrifying one: our present global civilisation will collapse within twenty years, and it is too late to stop it. We shall regress to a ‘New Middle Ages’ akin to the fall of the Roman Empire, only much more destructive. For the first time in the whole of human history, certain ‘dramatic lines’, giant crises and catastrophes of immense proportions – already tangible – have emerged. They are converging and will most likely reach their zenith by 2020. Up to that time, as we have already been witnessing, their effects will continue to get worse, until a breaking point is reached.

Guillaume Faye rigorously examines these escalating crises one by one: environmental damage and climate change; the breakdown of a speculative and debt-ridden globalist economy; the return of global epidemics; the depletion of fossil fuels and of agricultural and fishing resources; the rise of mass immigration, terrorism and nuclear proliferation; the worsening of the rupture between Islam and the West; and the dramatic explosion of a population of the elderly in the wealthy countries – all of it leading to an unprecedented worldwide economic recession, an increase in localised and possibly large-scale armed conflicts…and perhaps worse.

Still, Faye reminds us, we should not give in to pessimism: what we are experiencing is not an apocalypse, but a metamorphosis of humanity. We might have reached the end of what the Hindu traditions refer to as the Kali Yuga, the ‘age of iron’ marked by materialism and selfishness, but those who survive the catastrophe and chaos will perhaps build a new and better humanity…

With a doctorate in political science from Paris’ Institute of Political Science, the essayist Guillaume Faye was one of the principal theoreticians of the French Nouvelle Droite in the 1970s and ’80s prior to his growing sympathy for the identitarian movement. He has also been a journalist at Figaro-Magazine, Paris-Match, Magazine-Hebdo, Valeurs Actuelles, and a radio commentator. For several years he was the editor of J’ai tout compris (I Understood Everything), a private newsletter."

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The converging lines of civilisational rupture that in the course of the Twenty-first century will consume the ‘modern world’ in a great planetary chaos.

For the first time in history, humanity as a whole is threatened by a convergence of catastrophes.

A series of ‘dramatic lines’ are coming together and converging, like merging river streams, in a perfect concomitance of ruptures and chaotic upheavals (between 2010 and ’20). From this chaos — which will be extremely painful at the planetary level — there will emerge the possibility of a new post-catastrophic world order — the painful birth of a new civilisation.

Briefly summarised, here are the principal lines-of-catastrophe: The first of these is the cancerisation of Europe’s social fabric. The colonisation of the Northern Hemisphere by peoples of the South — which is becoming more and more imposing despite the media’s reassuring affirmations — is creating an extremely explosive situation; the failure of multi-racial society, which is already increasingly multi-racist and neo-tribal; the progressive ethno-anthropological metamorphosis of our Continent, a veritable historic cataclysm; the return of poverty to the West and the East; the slow, but steady progression of criminality and drug use; the continued fragmentation of the family; the decay of the educational system and especially the quality of instruction; breakdowns in the transmission of cultural knowledge and social disciplines (barbarism and failing competence); and the disappearance of popular culture for the sake of that mass cretinisation which comes with ‘spectacular’ culture. All this suggests that European nations are headed toward a New Middle Ages.

Factors of social rupture in Europe will be aggravated by an economic-demographic crisis that will culminate in mass poverty. Beginning in 2010, the number of active workers will no longer be sufficient to finance the baby-boomers’ retirement. Europe will teeter from the weight of its senior citizens. Her ageing population will then experience an economic slowdown, handicapped by the need to finance the health needs and pension requirements of her unproductive citizens; such an ageing population, moreover, will dry up techno-economic dynamism. Add to this the Third-Worldisation of the economy that comes with the uncontrolled mass immigration of unskilled populations.

A third dramatic line of the modernist catastrophe: chaos in the Global South. In pursuing an industrialisation that comes at the cost of their traditional culture, the countries of the South, despite their deceptive and fragile growth, are creating social chaos that will only get worse.

The fourth dramatic line of catastrophe, recently explained by Jacques Attali, is the threat of a world financial crisis, which promises to be qualitatively more serious than that of the 1930s, bringing another Depression. Stock market and currency collapses, like the East Asian recession of the late 1990s, are signs of what’s coming.

The fifth line of convergence: the rise of fanatical, fundamentalist religions, especially Islam. The upsurge of radical Islam is a repercussion of modernity’s excessive cosmopolitanism, which has imposed on the whole world its model of atheistic individualism, its cult of merchandise, its despiritualisation of values, and its dictatorship of the spectacle. Against this aggression, Islam has been radicalised, as it returns to its tradition of conquest and domination.

The sixth line of catastrophe: a North-South confrontation, highlighting ethnic-theological differences. With increased probability, this confrontation will replace the former East-West conflict. We don’t know the exact form this confrontation will take, but it will be very serious, given that its stakes are much higher than the former, rather artificial conflict between U.S. capitalism and Soviet Communism. The seventh line of catastrophe: the uncontrollable pollution of the planet, which threatens less the planet (which has another four billion years before it) than the physical survival of humanity. Environmental collapse is the fruit of the liberal-egalitarian (as well as the Soviet) myth of universal economic development.

To this should probably be added: the likely implosion of the European Union, which is becoming more and more ungovernable; nuclear proliferation in the Third World; and the probability of ethnic civil war in Europe.

The convergence of these factors on our extremely fragile global civilisation suggests that the Twenty-first century will not witness a progressive extension of today’s world, but rather the insurgence of another. We need to prepare for these tragic changes, lucidly.

Jacques Attali (1943- ) is a French economist who was an advisor to Mitterrand during the first decade of his presidency. Many of his writings are available in translation. Faye may be referring to Attali’s article ‘The Crash of Western Civilisation: The Limits of the Market and Democracy’, which appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of the American journal Foreign Policy. In it, Attali claimed that democracy and the free market are incompatible, writing: ‘Unless the West, and particularly its self-appointed leader, the United States, begins to recognise the shortcomings of the market economy and democracy, Western civilisation will gradually disintegrate and eventually self-destruct.’ In many ways his arguments resemble Faye’s.

(see chaos, interregnum, modernity)

Table of Contents

A Note From The Editor

Forward by Jared Taylor

Introduction: An Explosive Cocktail

• A. Believing in Miracles
• B. Man, a Sick Animal
• C. The Golem Parable, or the Machine that Went Mad
• D. The 'Billiard Ball' Theory
• E. 'Catastrophe Theory' and 'Discrete Structural Metamorphoses'
• F. We Must Stop Believing in Sorcerers: Techno-science Gone Mad

1. Towards the Collapse of the Terrestrial Ecosystem

• A. It is Already Too Late
• B. How Times Have Changed
• C. Countdown to Climate Bomb
• D. Confronted by Global Warming, the Utopias of the Ecologists
• E. Violent Climate Change is Going to Provoke Geopolitical Earthquakes
• F. The Spectre of Shortages
• G. Examples of Ecological Disasters
• H. And Let's Not Forget Epidemics

2. Toward the Clash of Civilizations

• A. The Globalisation of War
• B. Toward the Most Bellicose Century in History
• C. Terror as Art of Living
• D. Is It a Question of War between Islam and the West? 61
• E. China Against the USA
• F. When Everyone Has Nuclear Weapons
• G. Israel's Tears
• H. Two Examples to Make Us Think
• I. The Return of the Titans

3. Toward Chaos In Europe

• A. In the Eye of the Cyclone
• B. The Horrible Spectre of Ethnic Civil War
• C. Economy: Tomorrow, The Great European Depression
• D. The Demographic Coma
• E. The Cancer of Decadence
• F. European Union: The Shattered Dream

4. Toward a Giant Economic Crisis

• A. The End of the Paradigm of 'Economic Development'
• B. The Impending Death of the World Economic Development
• C. Toward a 'Civilisational Break-up'
• D. There is No Reason to Believe that Traditional Economies are 'Underdeveloped
• E. Is the Techno-scientific Economy Viable?
• F. The Neo-global Economy of the Post-Catastrophe Age
• G. The Non-egalitarian Economy
• H. Techno-science as Esoteric Alchemy
• I. When the Worst is Probable
• J. The End of 'Growth'
• K. Economism is Condemned
• L. The Fraud of the 'New Economy'
• M. The Dangerous Fragility of Global Liberal Capitalism
• N. Some Small but Worrying Signs
• O. The Spectre of Poverty
• P. Cancelling the debts of Poor Countries is a Farce

Conclusion: A New Middle Ages

• A. Chaos and Post-Chaos
• B. Humanity, the 'Adjustment Variable'
• C. The Drunken Boat
• D. Catastrophe Scenarios
• E. 1. The 'Soft' Scenario
• F. 2. The 'Hard' Scenario
• G. 3. 'The Very Hard' Scenario
• H. The End of Contemporary Humanity, Predicted by Tradition
• I. Out of Chaos, Into the Light

Books By Same Author

• A Global Coup
• Archeofuturism
• Archeofuturism 2.0
• Sex & Deviance
• Understanding Islam
• The Colonization of Europe
• Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance

Publication data

• Convergence of Catastrophes, Guillaume Faye, 2012, Arktos, ISBN-10 1907166467, ISBN-13 978-1-907166-46-4

See also

• Whig history

External links

• Convergence of Catastrophes at Arktos