panem et circenses?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010how great was the idea to rob the european poker tour at the hotel grand hyatt in potsdamer platz – berlin… it’s just a pity that the robbers (5-6 idols armed with kalashnikovs and handgrenades – most likely a professional commando from eastern europe) got “only” € 800,000. anyway their mission has been brilliantly accomplished.
the sick passion for poker nowadays is a clear symptom of the permanent regression to an idiot barbarism that, sadly, was never really dead nor defeated, but that at contrary is now the “main theme” of our time and the essential part of our so-called progress…
how the fuck is it possible that some people (also the so-called “vip”) are allowed to play tournaments with millions of euros while a huge part of this exhausted planet is starving to death? and especially how can everybody like this horrible show? of course and sadly i know well the answers to these questions… but asking is still essential if anybody wants really to wipe out such an “atrocity exhibition”…
please get us back to the gladiators of the ancient rome, where barbarism was still “natural”, “honest” and less brutal. the passion for poker shows perfectly a world where every romantic element is completely vanished, a fake-plastic world where everything is phony: there is not even a real tension in that fake game, all is calculated in advance, even the expressions of the competitors… where is the tension/suspense of the original gambling?
but mostly and above all where are we now?
cotidie circenses sine pane. please lord give us our everyday show when there is nothing to eat and to live for.
attilio
