O.J. Simpson has died; legendary footbll star, cum celebrity Simpson, was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, ( possibly her lover). His murder trial was the trial of the 20th Century, above the Nuremberg Trials or the Leopold/Loeb Trial. When this Blogger was growing up, men and women lived lives of quiet desperation, leading to many suicides. Quiet suicides, such as sticking one's head in an oven, with the gas on. In 2024, men and women live lives of noisy desperation, leading to unsuccessful suicides, or successful murders, mainly femicides. Alas, this Blogger prefers the era of quiet desperation. The Simpson Saga was  t he bridge between the lingering Eisenhower Era of quiet desperation, and the modern, noisy NETFLIX desperation, with many failed suicides and a lot of murders of former lovers, mainly women.. This Blogger's ancient mother, had survived World War I, the Great Influenza, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression,  World War II, the Korean Wa