Cry Wolf: A Political FableAfter the owner of Green Pastures Farm dies, the domesticated animals on the farm learn to tend the home themselves. Their peace is built on the idea of equality of all, the value of domestic life and the principle of ""No Trespassing"" - protecting the farm from the animals who live beyond the fence. But when a wounded wild doe appears, they vote to let her in, and it opens the floodgates for other wild animals that threaten the ideals of Green Pastures Farm. This is a controversial commentary on post-9/11 Western democracy, immigration and identity politics.
"John Lennon sang 'Imagine there's no countries, and no religions, too'. In his superb limpid allegory, Paul Lake imagines these very things with terrifying precision." -- Les Murray, poet and winner, TS Eliot Award
"In the great tradition of George Orwell's Animal Farm. I can only hope that it will be as widely read and will be as powerful an influence as was Orwell's masterpiece in awakening civilization to its present deadly peril." -- American Spectator
Paul Lake is an English and creative writing professor at Arkansas Tech University and the poetry editor of First Things. He is the author of Among the Immortals, Another Kind of Travel, and Walking Backward. He lives in Russellville, Arkansas. [link]
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Aid has assisted a massive increase in population in the developing world, for example in Africa where the population is disproportionately young. Yet Aid has not proportionately provided the further education, employment and health care that many of these same young people presumably see on TV and aspire to. I would hazard a guess that the same people who promote aid also promote the inward migration of these young people to the West.
Jean Raspail wrote a novel based on this very scenario over thirty years ago, The Camp of the Saints . The whole book is available as a free downloadable pdf. For a very brief overview see Jean Raspail—Our Cassandra.
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