by Richard McCulloch
“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”
Enoch Powell (1912-1998), British Conservative Member of Parliament, in a 1968 speech on the dangers of nonwhite immigration that effectively ended his chances for higher office.
Fact is often stranger than fiction. We are often entertained by apocalyptic works of fiction in which humanity, or an important part of it, is threatened with destruction. We are witnesses to the suspenseful efforts of the protagonists to save it. In the world of fact we are also witnesses — to a real-life drama which is much more than a case of life imitating art. The drama unfolding before us is the gradual diminishment and extinction of the Nordish race through the process of racial intermixture and replacement. Its existence has already suffered major loss and diminishment. Yet the presently dominant morality prohibits Northern Europeans from engaging in any effort to save it, or sympathizing with any such effort, or even caring about its plight. They are not permitted to oppose the ongoing destruction of their race, but are expected to support it.
In fiction, a tragedy is a morally significant struggle ending in the destruction or downfall of something or someone of great value or importance. The tragic playwrights of ancient Greece invented the form, emphasizing the role of morality in the conflict. They also originated the classic warning quoted above, that madness precedes, and causes, destruction. But it is the essence of madness that those afflicted by it cannot see it, and scorn as mad those who do. The divine, ruling or dominant powers that have made them mad, that have turned them against their own vital interests, against themselves, to bring about their own destruction — through the agency of a self-destructive ideology, religion, morality or system of beliefs and values — prevent them from being aware of either their madness or the fate it brings upon them.