
The Children of Men (P. D. James)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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James's Book Is Right Leaning
The book is perhaps most interesting about its prescience, and not just about our own slower motion population crash. James also foretold the overwhelming desire of the declining west for health and safety at any price. She accurately predicted that men, childless, middle aged women, notoriously unstable, would act insane and hysterical in any crisis to which imotivism and safety seemed to offer a solution. In some of the saddest scenes of the book, women treat cats and dolls as real children, desperate to satisfy their natural maternal instincts. This seems odd until we realize we're not that different with our odious and stupid bumper sticker such as doggy mamma. As now, trub vers
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