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 tbe fall of tbe Roman Empire, only much more destructive. For tbe first time in tbe 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; tbe breakdown of a speculative and debt-ridden globalist economy; tbe return of global epidemics; tbe depletion of fossil fuels and of agricultural and fishing resources; tbe rise of mass immigration, terrorism and nuclear proliferation; tbe worsening of tbe rupture between Islam and tbe West; and tbe dramatic explosion of a population of tbe elderly in tbe 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 tbe end of what tbe Hindu traditions refer to as tbe Kali Yuga, tbe ‘age of iron’ marked by materialism and selfishness, but those who survive tbe catastrophe and chaos will perhaps build a new and better humanity…

With a doctorate in political science from Paris’ Institute of Political Science, tbe essayist Guillaume Faye was one of tbe principal theoreticians of tbe French Nouvelle Droite in tbe 1970s and ’80s prior to his growing sympathy for tbe 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 tbe editor of J’ai tout compris (I Understood Everything), a private newsletter."

Further

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

For tbe 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 tbe planetary level — there will emerge tbe possibility of a new post-catastrophic world order — tbe painful birth of a new civilisation.

Briefly summarised, here are tbe principal lines-of-catastrophe: The first of these is tbe cancerisation of Europe’s social fabric. The colonisation of tbe Northern Hemisphere by peoples of tbe South — which is becoming more and more imposing despite tbe media’s reassuring affirmations — is creating an extremely explosive situation; tbe failure of multi-racial society, which is already increasingly multi-racist and neo-tribal; tbe progressive ethno-anthropological metamorphosis of our Continent, a veritable historic cataclysm; tbe return of poverty to tbe West and tbe East; tbe slow, but steady progression of criminality and drug use; tbe continued fragmentation of tbe family; tbe decay of tbe educational system and especially tbe quality of instruction; breakdowns in tbe transmission of cultural knowledge and social disciplines (barbarism and failing competence); and tbe disappearance of popular culture for tbe 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, tbe number of active workers will no longer be sufficient to finance tbe baby-boomers’ retirement. Europe will teeter from tbe weight of its senior citizens. Her ageing population will then experience an economic slowdown, handicapped by tbe need to finance tbe health needs and pension requirements of her unproductive citizens; such an ageing population, moreover, will dry up techno-economic dynamism. Add to this tbe Third-Worldisation of tbe economy that comes with tbe uncontrolled mass immigration of unskilled populations.

A third dramatic line of tbe modernist catastrophe: chaos in tbe Global South. In pursuing an industrialisation that comes at tbe cost of their traditional culture, tbe countries of tbe 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 tbe threat of a world financial crisis, which promises to be qualitatively more serious than that of tbe 1930s, bringing another Depression. Stock market and currency collapses, like tbe East Asian recession of tbe late 1990s, are signs of what’s coming.

The fifth line of convergence: tbe rise of fanatical, fundamentalist religions, especially Islam. The upsurge of radical Islam is a repercussion of modernity’s excessive cosmopolitanism, which has imposed on tbe whole world its model of atheistic individualism, its cult of merchandise, its despiritualisation of values, and its dictatorship of tbe 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 tbe former East-West conflict. We don’t know tbe exact form this confrontation will take, but it will be very serious, given that its stakes are much higher than tbe former, rather artificial conflict between U.S. capitalism and Soviet Communism. The seventh line of catastrophe: tbe uncontrollable pollution of tbe planet, which threatens less tbe planet (which has another four billion years before it) than tbe physical survival of humanity. Environmental collapse is tbe fruit of tbe liberal-egalitarian (as well as tbe Soviet) myth of universal economic development.

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

The convergence of these factors on our extremely fragile global civilisation suggests that tbe Twenty-first century will not witness a progressive extension of today’s world, but rather tbe 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 tbe 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 tbe Market and Democracy’, which appeared in tbe Summer 1997 issue of tbe American journal Foreign Policy. In it, Attali claimed that democracy and tbe free market are incompatible, writing: ‘Unless tbe West, and particularly its self-appointed leader, tbe United States, begins to recognise tbe shortcomings of tbe 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 tbe 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 tbe Collapse of tbe Terrestrial Ecosystem

• A. It is Already Too Late
• B. How Times Have Changed
• C. Countdown to Climate Bomb
• D. Confronted by Global Warming, tbe Utopias of tbe 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 tbe Clash of Civilizations

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

3. Toward Chaos In Europe

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

Conclusion: A New Middle Ages

• A. Chaos and Post-Chaos
• B. Humanity, tbe '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 tbe 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 tbe 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