It’s one thing to find myself, a tired dad, trying to wind down, exhausted or just completely uninspired to do anything but slump over at the end of a long day. It’s entirely different, but dismissable, to align the coping mechanisms for tiredness, only to surrender as hostage by big budgeted tech’s, cleverly designed, man-made constructs that provide an everlasting “existence in nothing;” with purpose driven by neither winning or losing, but to sadly remain in that nothingness because it profits them.
“More disconcerting than the fact of the attack itself is the disjuncture between the stopping of the man’s heart and the play that continues unabated all around him.” Addiction by Design – Natasha Dow Schull
Natasha’s book, “Addiction by Design” follows surveillance footage of casino floors used to improve the response time for the cases of heart attacks that occur on game floors. One disturbing video catches a man having a heart attack, collapses into the lap of a stranger next to him. That stranger, receiving a body in their lap, continues on with slots, in their zone– unphased, unreactive to what just happened; unseen as somebody loses vital organ function, slumps over and passes out, only to be saved by other witnesses passing by.