In light of the recent French elections, in which the “grown up” centrists (so-called) of Emmanuel Macron were roundly rejected by the “immature” French people in favour of firstly Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, then the far-Left New Popular Front, we have been examining the nation’s politics through the prism of the novels of Michel Houellebecq – see Part One here.
These books are capable of being viewed as bizarre rewrites of the sci-fi horror novels of Houellebecq’s adolescent literary hero, the American Weird Fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft (HPL to his fans), in which the overtly hideous Earth-invading alien demons, like the squid-headed giant Cthulhu, have been replaced instead by a kind of silent invasion of inhuman beings of another kind – a self-styled higher caste of deracinated, post-human globalist technocratic politicians of the Emmanuel Macron class.
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I am bored of Houellebecq.
C’est finis.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/western-economy-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss/
A truly interesting article looking at the oncoming worldwide financial crash.
“The whole US economy is based on a revolving door of debt. Bring it to an abrupt halt and mayhem will occur. We are almost at that point”
“The first problem is that US government debt is $34trillion and growing at $1trillion a quarter. Interest alone on this debt is more than US spending on defence, and it is close to the time where servicing the interest will be stressful. Effectively broke, the US spends like a drunk having a good time on credit.”
“On June 9 another calamity struck. Appalling diplomacy and foreign policy caused the end of the petrodollar, meaning the end of a commitment by Saudi Arabia to use US dollars as the currency in which to transact oil for all countries in the world. Saudi Arabia now accepts payments in most currencies, not just USD. This is a day history was made and will be seen in history as the day the US fell on its knees.”
“You may ask why there is so much concentration in this article on the US? Well, where the US leads, the UK follows; a lot of US fiscal policy is masked in UK statistics where you will likely see similar trends.”
The only question is when. Before the US election?
“ the US spends like a drunk having a good time on credit.”
Or my ex in a shoe shop. That is why she is an ex, that and using my credit card without my knowledge that is!
Neil Oliver was talking about this on his last show. He made the point, why is this not Headline News for the next month considering the ramifications. Against the narrative of course.
Great minds Ron.
Yes, what lies ahead in the future for France? Same with the UK. Regarding the latter I think that Justice Secretary who supports terrorism was meant to say which prisoners she’s going to let out early, wasn’t she? But back to the French corrupt election outcome;
”The French have voted in the left and blocked Marine Le Pen’s path to power. Have the French signed their own death warrant?
The left has won the second round and overall voting in France. While Marine Le Pen’s rightist National Rally had its best showing to date, it came in third, behind the left and Macron’s pseudo-centrist parties. What have the French brought upon themselves and why?
Across the Channel, the British voters gave Labor a massive victory over the reeling Tories and upstart Reform. Mark Steyn defined a conservative as one who adopts leftist policies ten years after the liberals. And thus, fourteen years of Tory rule were not dedicated to making Brexit a ringing success or controlling immigration. Rather, the various Tory leaders who came and went focused on climate change, on massaging ever greater illegal immigration, as well as the downsizing of the armed forces to the point where England could fight Tasmania and it would probably be a draw. They were given years to enact a pro-UK, pro-business agenda and instead monitored Facebook posts for anti-trans content and forced people to buy expensive and inefficient heat pumps.
The rise of the left means more uncontrolled immigration. It means even less effort to integrate Muslims into the fabric of French society. And that is a point that needs to be emphasized. A conservative couldn’t care less what a French person looks like: black, brown, white, etc. But that person should have fidelity to France as his or her country and a respect for the local culture and ways. The problem occurs when a large percentage of immigrants simply bring Islamabad or Kabul with them and not only refuse to become part of the local fabric but actively look down upon their hosts and threaten to take over their new countries via Sharia law.
Democracies are rarely defeated in battle; they usually destroy themselves from within by forgetting what made them successful, cohesive and strong in the first place. The French want more immigrants who hate them, just as the Biden White House actively wants more immigrants who are destroying US communities and causing increased crime and higher rents.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/au-revoir-paris/
Just as the Rwanda Scheme was a shop front for continuing vast legal immigration, so Starmer’s ‘tackling’ the smuggling gangs is a shop front for the continuance of large scale illegal immigration.
More crime: more surveillance, more behaviour Orders, more ’empowering’ the communities with only the sort of power that is really a leash held by the imperial centre. Prisoners released early requiring the extending of the walls of the prison to encompass the whole of society. Instead of the old-fashioned morality of self-restraint that civilisation is founded upon. Why would the state want to encourage that.
Yep, correct. Can’t remember if I’ve shared this. Here’s Viktor Orban talking about Soros’ plan;
”RIP France. UK and France Are lost. Macron Stole The Election & The French Are Doomed To Be Flooded With Illegal Migrants
Remember we have UNDENIABLE PROOF George Soros paid off these elected officials to flood America & Europe with illegals
The Prime Minister of Hungary exposed the document proving George Soros is largely behind the global illegal immigrant invasion
Back in 2015, George Soros published his plan, which is now being implemented across the globe to bring millions of illegals into the United States and into Europe. As Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban recently pointed out:”
Viktor Orbán “I do remember how Mr. George Soros published his plan The Project Syndicate Publication:
First, this is a very clear. In 2015, EU has to accept at least a million asylum seekers annually
2nd, he said, adequate financing is critical, and he proposed to issue long term euro bonds for financing the migration crisis and the migrants social and welfare taking care when they arrive in the European Union.”…. ( <3mins )
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1810050934317490546
”On a Spanish beach immigrants arrive & open their brand new packaged phone to receive further instructions on where to go & how to receive further monies & accommodation.
This is a planned, deliberate military style precision operation conducted by NGO’s – funded by Government to completely destabilise The West.”
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1811673026997403691
Wow!
Thanks for the Twitter links Mogs. Bombshell stuff.
It’s the circles i move in, don’t you know?
Don’t thank me, thank my algorithms. 
But yes, another conspiracy turned fact. How many’s that now…?
How’d you reckon the misogynists are going to spin this to be all those pesky womens’ faults?
Remember when Lammy & Starmer were confronted by “Anti-Vaxxers”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNEqcCp4K0
Kneel and Mastermind don’t look too comfortable in this vid. Much appreciated.
And when Texas tries to take back control, as they say, Biden, or his handlers take legal action against them. Madness.
The trouble with Houellebecq is that he’s French. France has never been the same since the Entente of 1904. Napoleon needed constant war, the eternal enemy, to keep revolutionary France alive. No longer with a famous currency to define them, the French have become banal. There is no gloire, only its simulacrum in Macron’s fantasies about sending an expeditionary force to Ukraine.
Suicides and anti-natalism are desperate attempts to assert a distinct will against the universal ‘liberal values’. Like cactus asserting a defiance against the desiccation of the desert. As populism is the shadow of democracy, Houellebecq’s novels are the shadow of the banal. A hair shirt to keep the skin sensitised.
It has been argued that mass immigration has rendered assimilation obsolete. On the contrary, it now works in the opposite direction. The larger object exerting a gravity on the smaller. But this is nothing new. In the time of the Norman kings in England, the use of Anglo-Saxon first names went out of use.
In the territory of modern France, just as in the British Isles, many polities and peoples have come into existence and then vanished in the last two millennia. Who the clans and tribes and their beliefs were in Dark Age Sussex, an impenetrable wood-enclosed pagan realm, will never now be known. In Kent, the village of Woodnesborough preserves the fact that it was once the place of Wodan and the people who declared descent from him. But no more.
If the form of the novel had existed in the past, any number of writers could have authored such stuff as Houellebecq’s. The Apostle Paul, looking at the state of the Greeks and Romans, declared that the form of this world is passing away. Luke can write the same in his Gospel. The seer John in Revelation whirls the elements of the Last Days into a dramatic opera like a conductor marshalling his orchestra. He diagnoses the economic collapse of the City of Rome centuries before.
At the end of the 19th century the poet Cowper though that the conditions of his time meant that the Last Days were upon him. Whereas, more circumspectly and certainly with more erudition, the Edwardian bishop of Durham considered that the Last Days were the entire Christian era, however long or short it might eventually be. In his novel, That Hideous Strength, C S Lewis has an elite aspire to the fashioning of the New Man. It could be you, an Italian scientist tells a new recruit, or it could be me.
Why doesn’t Houellebecq envisage a rescue force – if he can’t manage an army of angels – then space aliens from Alpha Centauri who, having listened to radio broadcasts from the Third Reich, have all become the fascists feared by Macron, and have decided to save the Earthlings from their self-important ruling castes?
Thank you, Steven. I’ve really appreciated these two articles. Long reads each but well worth the effort and the return. As with all your work for DS, you write with considerable brio and insight. You’ve brought an enriching energy to the work of a well-established team, who each, in their various ways commit to their subject with authority and drive. These ‘Houellebecq’ pieces demonstrate yet again your superb engagement with your subject matter. The quality and depth of your research is enlightening and stimulating of further thought as well as challenge, I expect. Which seems to be the point of the theoretical engagement. When you use the light touch, there’s always much to reflect on in that alone. It’s a perfect combination. My first (and probably last) comment on this ‘forum’, although I’ve been subscribing since those difficult months of 2020 and will continue to do so. Just wanted you to know how much I appreciate what is conveyed above the line by you and your colleagues and the work involved in keeping us so well informed, however our views may differ. It’s been encouraging occasionally to find those below the line engaging with each article in the spirit of its intention – thank you Claphamanian, on this occasion – rather than going ‘off topic’. Or carelessly shrugging their shoulders in dismissal. There are far more of us who read than comment. I wonder why. All my best wishes, Catherine.
““Life was expensive in the West, it was cold there; the prostitution was of poor quality”
Tell me about it, at least with Eastern European whores they are slimmer.
“When Rachel Reeves was born, just such an instruction-booklet dropped out of her mother’s womb”
She does seem a bit Robotic.
I think he does caputure the mood and essence. The sense, especially in England of a deep malaise and the closure of all avenues of remedy. What is this telling you? I think it says that deep errors occured in our intellectual and spiritual history that are being brought to light now. How can you reinvigorate the spirit when you have lost the notion of what the spirit is and without spirit you have no energy to resist. The slow but now almost complete removal of the life of the mind from British society. There has always been an anti-intellctual bent but this is something else entirely.
Lovecraft witenessed in his lifetime a deterioration in terms of the peole that were populating the seaside. He said at one time the streets were walked by bright eyed mariners. And in his time they were walked bu Asiatic dregs as he called them. I am not excusing his racism and pettiness but it isn’t difficult to see the deterioration here, cities or seaside towns, The good news is that those who were complicit or acquiescent are beginning to get it now.
Back to the fundaments. I can offer someting better. Just sitting around a campfire maybe even having killed several enemies and scalped them but we sit around and exchange tales of romance and happiness. This is our human essence.
It is later than you think. Getting the timing wrong isn’t a big deal in chilled times but in these times it is essentially delusion. Don’t just sit around in some depressing reality as this agenda unfolds on top of you. If we allow it to get any stronger then it might take hold for a very long time and it is our duty to stop that.
Thank you for the detailed “review” of Houellebecq’s novels.
Like tedious French films, I think I’ll pass.
He left out quite a bit of it. Houellebecq’s shtick is to describe stuff people generally find disgusting, like (real example) the smell of a dead rat rotting behind a wall (stolen from Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls) in spurious detail and his main theme is that “sex life” somehow never is what people would have wanted it to become. Anything beyond that is window dressing.