Is it
nostalgia or retro-futurism?
I can’t
really imagine young guys like James Packer or Stephen Hung – two of the mega
casino owners in Macau today – actually pining for some actual remembered
beautiful past.
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A 'new' casino in Osaka |
It’s
basically architects designing for clients who have no imagination...
But then, is
the case that the money spending public have no imagination either and simply
want to surround themselves with tacky fictions they don’t need to take
intellectual responsibility for?
The water
level, however, is dropping in the lake. Sure the dinosaurs are still chewing
up all the plant life everywhere, but the mud at the lake floor is starting to
rise up to the senses where once the crystal waters glowed with life and
action.
You couldn’t
get a more obvious sign than the current disastrous ticket sales at the general
box office; ‘they’ have totally vandalized the Bond franchise, filled up casino
gambling halls with electrical machines – hardly electronic, that would unduly dignify them – and destroyed the stock
market with fake buying via fake money.
There is no
excitement pulse in the veins of the public.
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Plaza casino, Macau, quite nice, really
small, old-fashioned...
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Ethanol will
just anaesthetize people until they are literally a dead, a zombie generation.
How much of modern alcohol is actually ‘made’ the way it once was, instead,
isn’t it just contrived with ethanol and flavour additives in the form of ‘high
tech molecules?’
You can drug
and anaesthetize the bored public and convince yourself that all is well.
This is all
about laziness and lazy-mindedness on the part of the wealthy and the political
elite – and it goes on only as long as there is no opposition in evidence. The real opposition, of course, is not Al
Qaeda, or ISIS, or any one of a dozen other possible high-focus but trumped-up
villains; the real opposition is the power inside those who not only
authentically remember a richer past, but have learned its lessons and can
understand what is humanly valuable and how to go about possessing it.
Wouldn’t a
Howard Hughes, for example, were he alive today, look upon what is going on as
simply the most amazing opportunity? I mean to say, the next time you watch a
‘red carpet’ show on tv, just remember that this was all originally from one
single Hughes event, when he decided that a red carpet all the way round two blocks
leading into his theatre where the epic ‘Hell’s Angels’ was premiere-ing, might
be a good idea.
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Monteverdi 375 - a bit of nostalgia... |
Thing is, it
was his idea, and not some stupid
copycat version of fifty other people’s past history and otherwise rolling
committee decisions on what could be a good idea to foist onto the public to
convince them something glamourous or exciting or new, is still going on once
the main show is already over.
Take away
Fed interference and there would be no stock market right now. Take away Fed
fiddling and there would be no gold left in the US. Leave things as they are
and the mud, at the bottom of the lake, will mire the heavy swamp monsters into
their virtual graveyards. The mud is the turgidity of tax receipt flows. And it
is a fact and it is real and it has force.