gross...but engrossing

i am in macau.

what a crazy mindfuck.

you can understand the craziness by looking into the wild, desperate eye of any chinese gambler.

i'm totally grossed out.

but also totally engrossed.

the venetian is also apparently the single largest building in the world, in terms of square feet. it has 6000 rooms plus an arena like madison square garden and on and on and on.

that part is great. especially the garish grandeur of the structure, as both a physical and commercial undertaking.

what's scary is that i can imagine the place being chockablock full all the time in a few months. plus, that wild desperate look in the eyes of the chinese people who come here to gamble.

it's the absolute abyss of human nature -- sad and desperate and desperately compulsive.

a testament to what (many) chinese people really love, when their truest, basest nature is revealed. the venetian is an exultant celebration of that baseness

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yes, i obviously hate gambling. but i also love gambling. that's why i hate it so much. and that's why i stopped playing poker when i was only 13 years old. (not kidding). it's like not listening to pop music, because it's a quick road to damnation ... to the slackening of the human mind and spirit,,,,it's just way too easy -- like porn, like doritos .....