{"id":103597,"date":"2026-07-13T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103597"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:31:54","slug":"a-fair-reading-of-the-camp-of-the-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/13\/a-fair-reading-of-the-camp-of-the-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fair Reading of <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0iQb3Uu4jgU?si=VAnZ3BaOCyyOEO0C\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Jean Raspail&#8217;s 1973 novel <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> has gone from obscurity to infamy in recent years, drawing condemnation for its highly &#8230; unflattering depiction of third-worlders. Much of this condemnation comes from people who haven&#8217;t read it, or gave it only a shallow and cursory read. But if we let the book speak for itself it can be quite insightful at times, and the true target of its scorn becomes brutally evident.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than use politically-charged b-roll, it&#8217;s all hiking shots this time. Mostly to cover some edits. This is a great one for those who listen to these on the commute. Or the commode as the case may be. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:03 The Story<br \/>\n14:22 Escalation Curve<br \/>\n17:38 Hamadura and &#8220;Whiteness&#8221;<br \/>\n22:05 Culture and Ethnicity<br \/>\n26:33 Why so Serious?<br \/>\n30:09 The End of a World<br \/>\n34:14 Your Virtual Right-Wing Uncle<br \/>\n35:48 A &#8220;Martian&#8221; Perspective<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Oh, and book 2 of <em>Stellar Drift<\/em> is out. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GTVXK4CN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 10 Jul 2026 Jean Raspail&#8217;s 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints has gone from obscurity to infamy in recent years, drawing condemnation for its highly &#8230; unflattering depiction of third-worlders. Much of this condemnation comes from people who haven&#8217;t read it, or gave it only a shallow and cursory read. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,1117,23,28,53],"tags":[431,86,262,1593,1020,99,558,85],"class_list":["post-103597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-france","category-india","category-media","category-politics","tag-conservatism","tag-criticism","tag-culture","tag-feralhistorian","tag-progressives","tag-racism","tag-refugees","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qWV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103598,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103597\/revisions\/103598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}