From Rebecca Solnit comes a brilliant new piece on Las Vegas, the gambling capital of America, the place where you are to be parted from your spouse and your money. It’s a remarkable essay on the city that once celebrated the desert world it was built in with casinos named the Sahara and the Last Frontier and now celebrates anything and anywhere else but there. It’s also the tale of how Wall Street, that even bigger casino, took down Las Vegas earlier in this century, turning its desert confines into a graveyard of subdivisions filled with half-built and abandoned luxury homes in a breathtaking national gambling scheme. Above all, it’s a reminder that the house always wins and that, when it comes to Las Vegas, “the house” is the desert. This is simply a must-read tour de force look at this country through one gambling town. Tom Note: Solnit’s piece is a slightly adapted version of an essay she wrote for photographer Michael Light’s new book Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain. If you repost, it’s important to keep the credits in place under the title and in Solnit’s bio at the end. Thanks! From TomDispatch: An anatomy of casino capitalism, or how Wall Street trashed Las Vegas and Las Vegas trashed the desert -- Rebecca Solnit, “Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street” tomdispatch/blog/175929/
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:15:00 +0000
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