Saturday, October 11, 2014

The gambler " votes " for capitalism ( Providence Phoenix post )

  I would vote NO on any pro-casino, pro-gambling referendum. With a sense of humor I recall my dismal view of gambling shaped by an eerie Twilight Zone episode titled " The Fever ". How many weary, red-eyed, often drunken losers coming out of grand lurid casinos experience the equivalent of the " Franklin ! Franklin ! " nightmare ?
       Unconsciously, the gambler is - in a sense- VOTING for the fundamental principle of modern capitalism: winner take all. While the rest of us foolishly applaud unearned wealth, and LADY LUCK, the idiot goddess of all philistine  SUCCESS.
       Because I , a confirmed socialist ,question the very legitimacy of ALL free market wealth, I must have a negative opinion of gambling.
    ( My best wishes to the soon to be jobless staff of the Providence Phoenix. More victims of the cruel PROFIT SYSTEM. )

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