Today I’m swiping links from Raymond Chen.
Las Vegas has a lot of shame to hide. Hiding shame is its tagline – “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”
When I embrace something shameful as a rule of life, it has a drastic consequence: I are forced to abandon truth. It becomes impossible to hold onto the truth because the truth is awful. I’m faced with the choice of either abandoning the shameful thing or denying the truth and trying to bury the shame.
Of course, Vegas would never try to bury its shame.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there were a some who declared that Katrina was God’s judgement on New Orleans. I maintain that it’s difficult to know for sure, because Katrina was a hurricane and New Orleans is a coastal area. When a hurricane hits Las Vegas, we’ll know.