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In an essay in his Rumors enewsletter, Ralph Milton reflects on a visit he, his wife, and his sister-in-law paid to Las Vegas, during a travel layover.
We wandered through several casinos. None of them were crowded. But there were people playing the slots -- playing mechanically, with utterly blank faces, not in pain but also not happy. It seemed to me that if they could think of anything else to do, they would do it, but in the meantime they kept cranking those slots.
One of the casinos had a children's area. It was full of loud music and flashing lights and in-your-face promoters who smiled with their mouths but not with their eyes. We saw one little tyke walking with his hands over his ears. We saw other children playing games that offered prizes, but not a one of them looked happy....
You can read the newspaper on the street at midnight in Vegas. They've reversed Isaiah. The people that walk in all this artificial light have found a deep darkness. The glare of all those florescent tubes can't get beyond the dullness of their eyes.
(From Ralph Milton's Rumors for January 20, 2008)
We wandered through several casinos. None of them were crowded. But there were people playing the slots -- playing mechanically, with utterly blank faces, not in pain but also not happy. It seemed to me that if they could think of anything else to do, they would do it, but in the meantime they kept cranking those slots.
One of the casinos had a children's area. It was full of loud music and flashing lights and in-your-face promoters who smiled with their mouths but not with their eyes. We saw one little tyke walking with his hands over his ears. We saw other children playing games that offered prizes, but not a one of them looked happy....
You can read the newspaper on the street at midnight in Vegas. They've reversed Isaiah. The people that walk in all this artificial light have found a deep darkness. The glare of all those florescent tubes can't get beyond the dullness of their eyes.
(From Ralph Milton's Rumors for January 20, 2008)
