Carrol Cox -- "Under developed capitalism there is no direct link between the visible and the real, between act and motive, between cause and effect. But "ordinary" knowledge is grounded in genralizing precisely from a perceived link between a cause and effect, between an act and the motive of that act. And so we arive at KM's observation that there would be no need for science if appearance and reality coincided. "
Perhaps this is why the appearance of the detective genre marks the point when capitalism swallows all.
Joanna