Thanks for this.  It was a bit frustrating that she could not go into specifics about how her studies led to her findings, but what are you going to do in a half-hour speech describing your life's work.  While I remain skeptical about the viability of her findings as the basis for public policy, now I see that there actually has been a lot of empirical research done leading to them.  And I like the overall conclusions (even if they still seem to good to be true to me).

Definitely enough to encourage further investigation: I hope to wind up convinced!

The march of civilizations is a series of defenses that man has put up against the dread of pure existence.