Re: 3 stories from a gambler\'s life
Very nice. Thank you.
Playing online, one forgets how aggressive, sad, pathetic, violent, crazy, dreary and addicting a thing gambling is. One also misses out on real human contact. Our endeavor becomes a pure M-M exchange, to use a Marxian term, and a corrupted and deranged one at that. Through our computer screens we have the dehumanized postmodern economic experience. Give me the fish with the bayonnete. Give me the skinny, taunting drunk. Give me the huge, quiet, gun wielding gorilla. We're missing out on people in your face, people who are trying to take your money. Poker is like using the knowledge of peoples' minds against them-- the opposite of compassion. The 'how do you feel today?, how's the wife' chatter of the poker table really helps to drive in the sickness of the faux-friendship of this table, where we sit, not to eat together, but to eat of each other.
Once again, thank you. That was beautiful.
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06-23-2005, 04:20 AM
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