https://www.jpost.com/international/article-899087 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2026/06/i-suppose-its-crucial-question-of-our.html Feel free to let me know when you've stopped the nonsense and pulled yourself together. Of course it dates back to the Hippy Trail of the 1960/70's. The shorthand in Western popular music between vaguely Indian Hindu (Sitar) music and the use of drugs like Marijuana and Opium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKqi0HoqBI (Pay The Man, The Offspring, Official Audio) While watching Stacy Martin play Charles Sobharj's wife in; "The Serpant" (2021) caused me such anxiety. While it shows how much smaller the World is in the Globalised Era. During the Colonial Era when "Metropolis" (1927) was made the East, the Orient was considered new and exotic people only heard stories about. During the Neo-Colonial Era of the Hippy Trail Asia was considered an almost mythological place explored only by the very few. These days i...