Vegas

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 05:56:19 CST 2009


If you read the post on the drugged balloonist (from Russell's ABC of
Relativity), and I think it fair to say that Bertrand Russell's POVs
and Einstein's POV, while a fantantice as anyhting Pynchon or HST has
produced, were not altered by the use of LSD or other drugs, and if
you know something about markets and Brownian Motion, and if you apply
these to a Adorno-Benjamin critique of slot Machines and reproduction
technologies from prinit to internet (real/reel), and view this
through the critical soft-anarchist lens of Thoreau (resistance), it
makes sense. P continues to write about Bartleby, the scrivener, a
story of wall street. This makes peferct sense. To parse terms is a
waste of time.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused by the terms "gambling" and "capitalism" as used recently. here
> Vegas gambling is more properly gaming where the payoff to the house is
> assured.
> Capitalism cannot exist without State support and has never existed without
> State support. There is no risk.
>
>



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