Paris
11 May 2021
Synopsis of ‘Modern Times’ — a huge book masterfully describing the sensational events that occurred in the World from the Twenties to the Nineties, authored by Paul Johnson - an excellent & versatile scholar. He lives in London.
The followings are the titles of the twenty chapters of this book. Even contemplating on the titles, a horrible tell-tale is perceived and understood.
Mao Tse-tung’s Red book and Hitler’s Mein Kampf are presented as two portions of the same shit of vulgar & paranoid cruelty.
Man-made famine and murder of ‘counter-revolutionaries’ killed millions and millions of humans in China.
Chapter I to XX:
I - A relativistic world.
II - Despotic utopias.
III - Waiting for Hitler’s massacres
IV - ‘Legitamacy’ in decadence!
V - An infernal theocracy, a Celestial chaos.
VI - The Last Arcadia (‘aboriginals’).
VII - Dégringolade - towards degradation in every dimension of existence.
VIII - The Devils.
IX - The high noon of Aggression.
X - The end of Europe.
XI - The Watershed year.
XII - Superpower and Genocide.
XIII - Peace by Terror.
XIV - The Bandung Generation.
XV - Caliban’s kingdom.
XVI - Experimenting with half mankind by Mao Tse - Tung.
XVII - The European Lazarus.
XVIII - America’s suicide attempt.
XIX -The collectivist seventies. This describes many American Madness and Russian secret cleverness - matching each other.
XX - The recovery of Freedom after the mischiefs of mind at the end of its tether!
What kind of human society has the most prosperous country — America — created?
1) $ 7 Trillion — Richest 1% of the Americans gained in wealth in 2020.
2) 5% — is the portion of house-holds who own two-thirds of Americans’ total wealth. (Vide TIME issue : May 10/17, 2021, page 14)
Jai Paul Johnson