A reality so terrible that only an act of imagination can save us

In the latest installment of his multi-part article on the crisis of the West, Takuan Seiyo at The Brussels Journal urges the policy of Separationism to save us from the Islam and Third-World dangers, and gives his own thoughtful version of it. Then he says something that suggests he’s heard my speech at the recent Preserving Western Civilization conference:

[W]hile all these ideas are wise, proper and warranted, at a certain level, Separationism is a theoretical exercise, based again on the premise of “ought,” “should,” “have to” and “must” relative to both the rulers and the majority of the Western population that not only haven’t the slightest intention of following such imperatives but regard their issuers as evil….

But [educating the public about the nature of Islam] cannot possibly bring public sanity in time to prevent further calamities of the West’s self-dhimmization. For this reason, the road to “Atlantis” we’ll be charting leads there via a wide detour.

It’s only when Antipods [meaning the good guys, as distinct from the Pods, the aliens in The Invasion of the Body Snatcher, the great science fiction movie that Seiyo uses as his controlling metaphor] have established a strong base at that detour, that talk of Separationism will be more than an exercise of the imagination….

At the PWC conference I said that in order to save the West from Islam, we have to imagine ourselves into a different world from the world of liberalism we currently inhabit, and I gave a speech by an imaginary, non-liberal U.S. president laying out a “real Islam policy for a real America.” So I agree with Seiyo that at present Separationism is an act of imagination—but it’s an act of imagination aimed at getting us from a world of suicidal madness to the world of reality.

Which brings me to the question, what is the “wide detour” Seiyo says that we must travel to get there?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 07, 2009 10:25 PM | Send