Today on my day off i spent 8 hours in a casino. It was for an Arts organization that i belong to . We needed the money. The government pimps us off to these horrible places. I cannot imagine anywhere worse. They are loud. With the whirling pinging clankity clank of the slot machines and the whirling of the roulette wheels. TVs are on at all times. Even when i took a shit new country was playing from the speakers . In fact the only people who were not making noise are the people playing the games. Lady Luck requires silent adulation .
It assaults the eyes as well . The pink, blue and black carpet. The neon in every colour every where . Just as you can kill a starving man by feeding him too fast, You can disorient a blind man with too much light .
I felt like a vampire feeding on peoples hope. But i am going back tomorrow. I think culture is so important that i can take money from Tobacco and Gambling. Does this make us whores ?