Yes, isn't it interesting that we can't talk about population, or more specifically, over-population .

Those on the right don't like to discuss it because it infringes on their religious liberties of overpopulating the Earth and hastening the environmental destruction. Good for them!
Those on the left don't like to discuss it because it "smacks of racism". Well then, let us not discuss it!

But I trust that Mother Nature, who gives zero fucks about either the right or the left, will take care of things quite nicely in the not too distant future.

You are forgetting the shareholders.
What about their rights to "late stage capitalism", inflated stock prices and making a killing(literally) off of environmental collapse.

At this point it's too late for people too.

Reading Castaneda will do that.

They were asking for volunteers at Stanford in the early 60s, when LSD was still legal.
Once Kesey and the rest experienced that, the horse was out of the barn.

Rush: "The words of the profits are written on the studio walls..."

Brilliant and so true.

Agreed.
I would also point out this benefit:

That the "mind/ego/whatever" can kick back, take a break and relax is one of the big selling points. People get so used to their chattering monkey that when it stops chattering, just that in itself is an 'epiphany'.

Sources please.

Right, but the fascinating irony is that for all the intellectual acumen of "geeks/nerds", most of them have a very low brow bar when it comes to film, or art/culture/music in general.

The comic book format was given the go ahead because the studios knew it would create a mechanism for bringing audiences back again and again.
The stories based on the comics are ok, but just ok.

The real crime is that there are so many other amazing stories out there that aren't made into films.

Right.
Thanks for the clarification.

So I get that the rodents in the desert southwest are a "reservoir" for plague, including the Hantavirus.
Be careful about contact with rodents, dead or alive, and anywhere they have lived in confined spaces.
If you were around back when the Hantavirus made news you heard all about that.

But I guess I missed something about the laborer part - whether that has anything to do with Bubonic or Hanta.
What laborers are you referring to that lived in the four corners region?
Especially regarding the comment made by Applehu Akbar above.

Chinese laborers arriving by ship in San Francisco worked on the transcontinental railroad, which at its closest point in Utah was several hundred miles from the four corners area.

Both A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More are better than TGTBATU.
Eastwood almost didn't do the last one...

Single Bullet Theory FTW!
The Warren Commission was right!