Sunset Tree - Tucson, Arizona April 29, 2019 -- Tucson, Arizona, Sunday “Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations On the day after the movie Avengers: Endgame premiered, I heard an interview on public radio with the person who held the Guinness World Record for the most paid viewings of a single movie in a theater. The movie was the penultimate in the Marvel Avengers franchise, Avengers: Infinity War. The record holder watched the film one hundred and three times as Josh Brolin as Thanos wipe out half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers. This same viewer had already seen the latest release four times in twenty-four hours and held tickets for two more showings that same evening. When the interviewer asked him why he had watched one movie so many times he replied that he had always loved the Marvel characters and the Avengers were his all-time favorites. Pressed