Something abnormally horrible is happening.

The billion dollar powerball thrown as though it were stuck on the 20 yard line, with more and more people pouring money into it, stuck there for a while, symbol of luck, greed, tremendous powers of flagellant and inflationary forces skewing toward higher and higher
forms of post utopian absurdity.

In 50 some years, the unheard of , the grotesque nature of the circus mirroring of fortune, has gotten hold of basic values, and disfigured it to an extent,
Unimaginable back then, a few decades ago.

The inflating power of values, has destroyed reality, by infusing the symbolically unreal forces of unnatural systems, disinfiguring the natural progression of these values from their natural habitat.

If there is a limit, destroy it by magnifying and inflating reality into supra reality. Imagine those, who buy in to the aberration called reality, all features of which can be bought and changed, reforming into behemoths of virtual-non human aspirations?

And the cost? Who pays for this illusion, a destructive
Hall of mirrors, where men go mad, by its lack of perspective and depth?

In deed, the one dimensional man is stretched to the limit, his essential nature add so thin, as to defeat that, for which he was meant for.

It’s anti democratic, because the dream is fed by a multitude of losers, worshipping the golden calf of the very few, the few, who have come to reclaim the aristocracy of the power driven aspirations of the vested.

These theatrics are usually not lasting, such wealth is only so temporary refrains of oft uneducated, fearfully conditioned , ripened, as best fits those, ready for the plucking.

The theater is for supplication ,the conglomeration of super wealth, whose management has taken long years, many times more decades than is possible by chance occurances of a few numbers.

This inflation is remarkable, and unforeseen effects are quite certain to occur, when through such glass darkly, civilization returns to it’s earliest, primitive power motives, motives vested in as few men as possible, to re-create the pyramid, without which further platitudes would be impossible to parrot.

One note in passing, the recent pronouncement of FaceBook’s founder, to release to charity 99% of his 50 billion dollar fortune, leaving him with a scant 500 million, plus control of the enterprise. Of course what may be missing in this tally, is that even more money will generate in the ten year give-away.

If, 1.5 billion can be generated in a week or two by the lottery, how much more so can a worldly enterprise, which has just began to feel it’s real worth, in the ten years of the give away?

Nothing, but simulation can shadow the need for the inflating of values, since the return is diminishing, and inflation is always forced to catch up and over take it. So that the illusion may be sustained.

But, at what cost in survivability? Institutional gambling had become the holy grail of symptomology in this age of excess. How can we get back, that, which has to most appearances, been lost for ever?

Or, has it? They say, well you really need not gamble, it’s a prerogative issue, but, they miss the point: the air is infected.

People gamble, play games, collect knick knacks , eat at restraints, buy clothes they want but, not need, buy a house when a shack would do, buy vehicles when feet would do, celebrate holidays with gifts , food and junk, spend money on entertainment, movies, plays,books etc.
We work then try to find a measure of pleasure, so what? Sure some get stupid and go overboard but, most do not seem to. Would you take away hope?

Hope for what? For a grotesquely magnified inflationary world? Which deliberately enlarges all the fissures for all the world to see?

Not that they would, or could return to reason…
The hope is good and well, but be careful what you wish for. In a sense in the arid atmosphere, gambling with posterity’s chances are anything but productive.

The inflation is not merely gambling within the play of life, but gambling with life itself. Einstein said it well when he said, ‘God doesn’t play dice’.
Inflation is not an arbitrary occurances, it is pre-planned to accommodate certain economic feasibilities, at least, in part.

With the bad comes the good. With any social creature there will be have and have nots. You can berate society about greed, manipulation etc. but, without it humanity would not have many or most advancements , medical, technology, ability to feed masses, education, etc. There is much that is still bad but, nothing compared to what it was. Civilization has growing pains. Large herds and packs of other animals go through their equivalent . We are sentient but, still animal.