'I wish I had been born long ago and had passed on before our uncivilized time.'
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: With every Western country experiencing social collapse from a
variety of unaddressed causes, such as the rapid loss of jobs to
Artificial Intelligence, exhaustion of environmental and natural
resources, feminization’s replacement of the male role with sentiment
and destruction of the male/female relationship, the loss of integrity
and moral behavior to money, and the aggression inherent in the Zionist
Neoconservative doctrine of hegemony, I am going to skip writing for
today’s posting another dire assessment of our multitude of unaddressed
challenges.
Instead, remembering my previous essay some time ago about English
murder mysteries and the authors, I am returning for this morning’s
posting to a civilized time in which all was in control. In
the 1920s and 1930s, Great Britain, despite Sir Edward Grey stupidly
involving Britain in World War I, Britain was still a great power in
control of the seas and international trade. The British pound was the
world currency. The American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, looked upon British power with envy.
Perhaps Wilkie Collins with his books The Moonstone and The Woman In White was the first English mystery novelist. But
it was Agatha Christie’s 66 murder mysteries, most solved not by the
British police but by private detective Hercule Poirot and private
citizen, Miss Marple. With Agatha Christie you get a murder mystery, not a novel full of character development and psychological theories of crime.